Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Weimar | | On Seeing the Goethe–Schiller Monument at Weimar | | George Browning (1813?–1878) |
| | | ON the Platz before the theatre | |
| In the town of Weimar stand | |
| Goethe, Schiller,—two immortals, | |
| Idols of their fatherland! | |
| Germany indeed may point with | 5 |
| Pride unto that poet pair; | |
| As in life they by each other | |
| Stood, so now the wreath they share. | |
| One the Reaper cut down early, | |
| Scarce had shone on him life’s prime; | 10 |
| But the other lived to carry | |
| On his locks the silver rime. | |
| Honored by their prince and country | |
| In the Fürstengraft they lie, | |
| Side by side their bodies crumble, | 15 |
| But their works will live for aye. | | | | |
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