Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

thumb|upright=1.3|"Erlkönig" painting, Moritz von Schwind thumb|upright=1.3|The Erlking by Albert Sterner, ca. 1910

Ballad by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

collection of lyrical poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, written 1773, published 1785

epic by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

thumb|upright=1.2|Heidenröslein "''''''" (“Little Rose on the Heath”) is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe written in 1771 during his Strasbourg period, inspired by his relationship with Friederike Brion, the daughter of a local parson in Sessenheim with whom he had a brief but intense love affair. The poem was first published as verse in 1789 by Georg Joachim Göschen. It describes a young man who observes a freshly blooming rose sitting upon a heath and decides to pluck it, despite the rose's warning that it will prick him so that he will never be able to forget the flower. The poem has be

cycle of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1774 poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

two poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1828 poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1779 poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Elfenlied" (, "fairy song") is the conventional title of a 1780 poem by Goethe, and of a later (c. 1830) poem by Eduard Mörike (and of their various respective adaptations to music).

song by W. A. Mozart set to a poem by Goethe

poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cantata by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy to the ballad of the same name written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

poem by Johann Wolfgang Goethe

1789 poem written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe