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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Christel
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My senses ofttimes are oppress`d,

Oft stagnant is my blood;
But when by Christel`s sight I`m blest,

I feel my strength renew`d.
I see her here, I see her there,

And really cannot tell
The manner how, the when, the where,

The why I love her well.

If with the merest glance I view

Her black and roguish eyes,
And gaze on her black eyebrows too,

My spirit upward flies.
Has any one a mouth so sweet,

Such love-round cheeks as she?
Ah, when the eye her beauties meet,

It ne`er content can be.

And when in airy German dance

I clasp her form divine,
So quick we whirl, so quick advance,

What rapture then like mine!
And when she`s giddy, and feels warm,

I cradle her, poor thing,
Upon my breast, and in mine arm,—

I`m then a very king!

And when she looks with love on me,

Forgetting all but this,
When press`d against my bosom, she

Exchanges kiss for kiss,
All through my marrow runs a thrill,

Runs e`en my foot along!
I feel so well, I feel so ill,

I feel so weak, so strong!

Would that such moments ne`er would end!

The day ne`er long I find;
Could I the night too with her spend,

E`en that I should not mind.
If she were in mine arms but held,

To quench love`s thirst I`d try;
And could my torments not be quell`d,

Upon her breast would die.
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