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From Len Pennie, the performance poet sensation, come electric debut collections about loving, learning, surviving, growing and giving – an instant Sunday Times bestseller in two poetry books of modern Scots poetry: ‘Poyums'(2024) & ‘Poyums Annaw'(2025).
‘Poyums’
by Len Pennie
Publisher : Canongate Books
Publication date: April 23, 2024
Edition: Main
Language: English
Print length: 128 pages
ISBN-10: 1805301381
ISBN-13: 978-1805301387
Hardcover
11,99 Euro
A formidable follow up to her award-winning debut poetry collection, Len Pennie‘s poyums annaw is just like her: defiant, angry and trailblazing.
These poems are a call to arms, confronting ideas of patriarchy, gender-based violence and societal injustice with equal parts tenderness, quick-wit and righteous fury. poyums annaw firmly cements Len as a defining voice in contemporary Scots poetry.
‘Poyums Annaw’
by Len Pennie (Author)
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: September 30, 2025
Edition: Main
Language: English
Print length : 144 pages
ISBN-10: 1837263280
ISBN-13: 978-1837263288
Hardcover
21,99 Euro
Len Pennie (1999) is an award winning poet who writes predominantly in the Scots language. Her first book poyums won 2024 Scots book of the year and The British Book Awards Discover Book of the Year. She writes passionately about the promotion of minoritised languages, survivors of domestic abuse and the destigmatisation of mental illness. She has a massive following on social media of nearly 1.3 million engaged followers and her celebrity fans include Nigella Lawson and Michael Sheen.
Instagram & TikTok @misspunnypennie | Twitter @Lenniesaurus
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Depuis qu’il a survécu à une fièvre mortelle, personne n’a vu son visage.
Chaque nuit, l’enfant quitte le presbytère où il a été recueilli et s’enfonce dans les bois. Sous la lune, la forêt devient son territoire. Cette vie clandestine le protège du regard des autres.
Alors qu’il entre dans l’adolescence, une jeune fille apparaît parmi les arbres. Elle ne ressemble en rien aux habitants de ce village perdu, hanté par des haines ancestrales. Mais elle aussi porte un secret et rêve d’échapper à l’avenir qui lui est promis.
Le Visage de la nuit est un roman éblouissant, traversé d’éclairs sur l’adolescence, la violence et le désir.
Née en 1990, Cécile Coulon consacre sa thèse de Lettres Modernes au « Sport et à la littérature ». “Le Roi n’a pas sommeil” a obtenu le Prix Mauvais Genres France Culture / Le Nouvel Observateur 2012, et s’est vendu à près de 20 000 exemplaires. Avec “Le Rire du grand blessé”, en 2013, elle nous a offert une fable d’anticipation sur la place de la littérature dans notre société. Elle est considérée comme l’une des voix les plus prometteuses de sa génération.
Cécile Coulon: « une sacrée raconteuse d’histoire » – Le Figaro littéraire
Cécile Coulon:
Le Visage de la nuit
Grand livre
Éditeur: Iconoclaste
Date de publication: 8 janvier 2026
Langue: Français
ISBN-10: 2378805713
ISBN-13: 978-2378805715
Broché
€ 21,90
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Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen.
She loved that Austen’s books took the lives of women seriously, explored relationships with wit and confidence, and always, allowed for the possibility of a happy ending. She read and reread them, often wishing Austen wrote just one more.
But Austen wasn’t a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers—and clues about those women, and the exceptional books they wrote, are sprinkled like breadcrumbs throughout Austen’s work. Every character in Northanger Abbey who isn’t a boor sings the praises of Ann Radcliffe. The play that causes such a stir in Mansfield Park is a real one by the playwright Elizabeth Inchbald. In fact, the phrase “pride and prejudice” came from Frances Burney’s second novel Cecilia. The women that populated Jane Austen’s bookshelf profoundly influenced her work; Austen looked up to them, passionately discussed their books with her friends, and used an appreciation of their books as a litmus test for whether someone had good taste. So where had these women gone? Why hadn’t Romney—despite her training—ever read them? Or, in some cases, even heard of them? And why were they no longer embraced as part of the wider literary canon?
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf investigates the disappearance of Austen’s heroes—women writers who were erased from the Western canon—to reveal who they were, what they meant to Austen, and how they were forgotten. Each chapter profiles a different writer including Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Charlotte Smith, Hannah More, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, and Maria Edgeworth—and recounts Romney’s experience reading them, finding rare copies of their works, and drawing on connections between their words and Austen’s. Romney collects the once-famed works of these forgotten writers, physically recreating Austen’s bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers today. Austen’s Bookshelf will Jane encourage you to look beyond assigned reading lists, question who decides what belongs there, and build your very own collection of favorite novels.
Rebecca Romney is a rare book dealer and the cofounder of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book company based in Washington, DC. She is the rare books specialist on the HISTORY Channel’s show Pawn Stars, and the cofounder of the Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize. She is a generalist rare book dealer, handling works in all fields, from first editions of Jane Austen to science fiction paperbacks. Her work as a bookseller or writer has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Forbes, Variety, The Paris Review, and more. In 2019, she was featured in the documentary on the rare book trade, The Booksellers. A member of the Grolier Club, the American Antiquarian Society (AAS), and l’Association Internationale de Bibliophilie (AIB), she is on the Board of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Council of the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA), and the faculty of the Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS).
Rebecca Romney (Author)
Jane Austen’s Bookshelf:
A Rare Book Collector’s Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
Publisher: S&S / Marysue Rucci Books
Publication date: February 18, 2025
Language: English
Print length: 464 pages
ISBN-10: 1982190248
ISBN-13: 978-1982190248
Hardcover: $25.21
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In LEGENDA, bestselling historian Professor Janina Ramirez peels back the layers of time to reveal how the lives of women have been co-opted by those intent on crafting national identities.
Their names are well known, and summaries of their achievements have been recited in classrooms for decades, but medieval women like Joan of Arc, Lady Godiva and Isabella of Castile have been misrepresented, their stories twisted and weaponised. Meanwhile, ground-breaking 18th- and 19th-century women who blazed a trail through revolutionary Europe have been forgotten, their legacies too easily dismissed or ignored.
Dr Janina Ramirez is a presenter, lecturer and researcher, specialising in interpreting symbols and examining art works within their historical context. She is Course Director for the Undergraduate Certificate and Diploma in History of Art at the Department for Continuing Education, Oxford University. She has published widely on medieval art and literature, and has taught and researched across a broad chronological sweep, covering everything from the sculptures of antiquity to post-modern architecture.
Legenda.
The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe
by Janina Ramirez
Hardback
2025
Imprint: WH Allen
Published: 06/11/2025
ISBN: 9780753560419
Length: 480 pages
Price: £25.00
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Thomas Waagmeester, een bejaarde man, musicoloog en schrijver van boeken over componisten, heeft een paar jaar geleden zijn geliefde vrouw verloren.
Agnes was zijn muze en de spil van zijn leven. Toen zij stierf viel hij in een diep gat. Vaak als hij alleen is praat hij met haar, tegen haar portret, en zij praat terug. Hij vindt dat niet vreemd.
Zij wist altijd wat hij dacht, zoals hij dat van haar wist. Zo praat hij ook vaak met Theo, zijn zoon die heel jong met zijn motor verongelukt is, in de kamer van Theo, die na diens dood onaangeroerd is gebleven.
Toch twijfelt Thomas soms aan zichzelf en vraagt hij zich af of hij aan het dementeren is.
Dat denkt soms ook zijn dochter Anne, de moeder van Tom. Thomas heeft een bijzondere band met Tom, zijn kleinzoon. Als het slecht met hem gaat, komt Tom op bezoek en blijft slapen. Tom vertelt over zijn vriendinnetje Nicky en dat haar ouders hun vriendschap niet zien zitten, omdat hij op het vmbo zit en zij op het vwo. Dat woelt oude weerbarstige gevoelens op bij Thomas. In zijn jeugd was hij ook te min voor zijn eerste liefje.
Op een dag komt er een overlijdensbericht van Leo, een jeugdvriend, met wie hij van diens ouders niet meer om mocht gaan. Thomas en Leo waren muziekvrienden. Ze wilden samen verder studeren in de muziek, maar Leo was voorbestemd om directeur te worden van een grote fabriek. Ze werden van elkaar weggehouden. Een mensenleven lang hebben ze elkaar niet meer gezien.
Moet hij wel naar de uitvaart gaan? Hij twijfelt. Temeer omdat de brief afkomstig is van Irene, het meisje uit het dorp van hogere stand met wie hij kortstondig een verhouding had, maar dat plots uit zijn leven verdween. Na veel wikken en wegen besluit hij toch te gaan. Zijn dochter Anne, haar man Mikel, Tom en Nicky volgen hem naar het dorp, onder het mom dat ze het dorp van zijn jeugd ook wel eens willen zien.
De thuisreis wordt een hindernisreis. In het dorp van zijn jeugd valt hij van de ene in de andere verbazing en krijgt hij klap na klap. In zijn hallucinaties bespreekt hij alles wat hem overkomt, zoals hij dat altijd deed met Agnes, op hun concertreizen. En dan aanvaardt hij een hallucinante thuisreis terug naar huis.
Thomas pakte zijn koffer. Van alles wat. Een doosje medicijnen voor een dag of zes en een zakje voor drie dagen in de binnenzak van zijn jasje. Je kon immers nooit weten. Pillen voor het hart, de bloedbanen, de jicht en nog het een en ander en een pil om de maag te beschermen tegen al die andere pillen.
Hij keek nog even naar het nieuws of er geen files stonden naar Maastricht. Dat viel mee. Bijna al het andere nieuws ging over oorlog. Her en der stond de wereld in brand. Tom had gelijk. De mens was een onderdeel van de natuur en net zo wreed als de rest van de dieren. In de afgelopen weken had hij met Tom een serie gevolgd over de Eerste Wereldoorlog. Hoe honderdduizenden soldaten elkaar hadden uitgemoord, zonder te weten waarom. De laatste aflevering had Tom niet meer willen zien.
‘Nou, dan ga ik maar,’ zei hij tegen het portret van Agnes.
‘Ben je niet te veel gespannen?’ vroeg ze.
‘Valt wel mee. Tom heeft me weer wat rust gebracht.’
‘Ja, die Tom,’ zei Agnes. ‘Hij zegt de dingen raak. Ik heb wel gehoord dat hij zei dat de natuur gruwelijk is.’
Thomas pakte het portret van Agnes en drukte er een kus op.
‘Ik laat je hier niet alleen. Ik neem je mee op reis.’
‘Net zoals het altijd is geweest,’ zei Agnes. ‘Samen op reis.’
‘Het wordt een thuisreis naar het dorp van mijn jeugd waar ik nooit meer terug ben geweest.’
Hij stopte het portret in zijn koffer.
Ton van Reen
Thuisreis
roman
omslag Carmen Arends
gebrocheerd in omslag met flappen
296 blz.
ISBN 978-94-93368-36-1
oktober 2025
€ 22,00
Ton van Reen (84) schreef onder meer romans, kinder- en jeugdboeken en deed journalistiek werk voor o.a. de Volkskrant en de GPD-kranten. Bekende boeken van Ton van Reen zijn Het winterjaar, Roomse meisjes, In het donkere zuiden, Landverbeuren, In het spoor van de camisards, Katapult – Oproer in Amsterdam, Concert voor de Führer, Gestolen jeugd, De lichtverkoper, Dochters, Vlucht uit Montaillou, De verdwenen stad en Het nooit geschreven verhaal. De bende van de bokkenrijders werd verfilmd tot een veelbekroonde tv-serie.
Met Thuisreis viert Ton van Reen zijn 60-jarig schrijverschap en nadert hij zijn 100ste boektitel.
Ton van Reen
Thuisreis
roman
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An inspirational work of wisdom, warmth, and generosity from a three-term US poet laureate.
“To know ourselves is the most profound and difficult endeavor. Though we are all made of the same questions, we have individual routes to the answers, or to reframing the questions. Why is there evil in the world? Why do people suffer, and some more than others? Why are we here? What are we doing here? What happens after death? Does anything mean anything at all? Who am I and what does it matter?” writes Joy Harjo, renowned poet and activist, in this profound work about the struggles, challenges, and joys of coming of age.
In her best-selling memoir Poet Warrior, Harjo led readers through her lifelong process of artistic evolution. In Girl Warrior, she speaks directly to Native girls and women, sharing stories about her own coming of age to bring renewed attention to the pivotal moments of becoming including forgiveness, failure, falling, rising up, and honoring our vast family of beings.
Informed by her own experiences and those of her ancestors, Harjo offers inspiration and insight for navigating the many challenges of maturation. She grapples with parents, friendships, love, and loss. She guides young readers toward painting, poetry, and music as powerful tools for developing their own ethical sensibility. As Harjo demonstrates, the act of making is an essential part of who we are, a means of inviting the past into the present and a critical tool young women can use to shape a more just future. Lyrical and compassionate, Harjo’s call for creativity and empathy is an urgent and necessary work.
Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned poet, performer, and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States. Harjo is the author of ten books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, and two memoirs; she has also produced seven award-winning music albums and edited several anthologies. Her many honors include the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, the Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award, two NEA fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Board of Directors Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center.
Girl Warrior: On Coming of Age
by Joy Harjo (Author)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date: October 7, 2025
Language: English
Print length: 176 pages
ISBN-10:1324094176
ISBN-13:978-1324094173
October 7, 2025
Hardcover
$ 21.99
Euro 18,69
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Retrouver la douceur est le nouveau recueil de Cécile Coulon. Au fil des poèmes, elle saisit avec justesse les émotions, les sentiments et parvient à conserver l’instant présent.
« Je suis en train de dépasser mon enfance en marchant trop vite
à ses côtés : je lui demande de me suivre
mais le passé s’arrête dans chaque ravin
respirer l’odeur des fleurs séchées. »
Cécile Coulon nous entrouvre les portes de son univers où les fantômes de l’enfance côtoient la douceur des instants volés et la joie des petits riens du quotidien.
Le temps passant, il laisse place à l’incertitude et à l’absence. La douceur et l’amour deviennent alors deux compagnons de route essentiels. Les souvenirs quant à eux persistent à travers les paysages et les lieux aimés.
Cécile Coulon, née en 1990, est une romancière, nouvelliste et poétesse française. Elle publie son premier roman, Le Voleur de vie, à seulement 16 ans. Après avoir obtenu un baccalauréat option cinéma, elle poursuit ses études en hypokhâgne et khâgne au lycée.
En 2012, elle publie Le roi n’a pas sommeil, qui remporte le prix Mauvais genres et le Prix Coup de foudre des Vendanges littéraires. Ce roman est également finaliste du prix France Culture-Télérama. En 2013, elle publie Le Rire du grand blessé, qui est sélectionné pour le Prix littéraire des jeunes Européens.
En 2017, son roman Trois saisons d’orage est publié et remporte le Prix des libraires. Ce livre explore les relations humaines et les liens entre l’homme et la nature, thèmes chers à l’auteure. En 2018, elle publie son premier recueil de poésie, Les Ronces, qui reçoit le prix Guillaume-Apollinaire et le prix Révélation de poésie de la Société des gens de lettres.
En 2019, Cécile Coulon publie Une bête au paradis, un roman qui remporte le Prix littéraire du Monde et confirme la place de l’auteure parmi les voix prometteuses de la littérature française contemporaine. En 2021, elle publie Seule en sa demeure, un roman qui continue d’explorer les thèmes de la ruralité et des relations humaines complexes.
La Langue des choses cachées (2024) est un roman poétique et sombre qui suit un jeune guérisseur dans un village reculé, explorant la noirceur humaine et la force de la nature à travers une nuit de terreur ancestrale.
Retrouver la douceur (2025) est un recueil de poèmes qui capture avec justesse les émotions et les sentiments, tout en préservant l’instant présent à travers des souvenirs d’enfance et des moments de douceur quotidienne
Cécile Coulon est également active dans le domaine du théâtre et de la poésie, participant à divers festivals et collaborant avec d’autres artistes.
Retrouver la douceur
Poésie
Auteur: Cécile Coulon
Editeur: Castor Astral
Date de parution: 03/04/2025
Collection: Poesie
EAN: 9791027808106
ISBN: 1027808107
Nombre de pages: 109
Format: 14,10 x 20,60 x 1,30 cm
SKU: 5671952
16,00 EUR
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New Cemetery is the highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection from the Poet Laureate.
The conversion of a local beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point for New Cemetery.
From regular walks around the boundary near his moorland home in West Yorkshire, Simon Armitage chronicles the extraordinary transformation of landscape both outer and inner.
These luminous and wry poems – composed in short-lined tercets – reflect the changing world: one of unstable weather patterns and unpredictable news events, all observed across a few acres of Pennine upland.
As phases of lockdown come and go and the cemetery fills up with his new ‘neighbours’, Armitage charts personal losses of his own, often retreating to his garden shed to navigate blank paper with pen and ink – and the results are as surprising as they are life-enhancing.
Simon Armitage was born in West Yorkshire and is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds. His collections of poetry, which have received numerous prizes and awards, include Seeing Stars (2010), The Unaccompanied (2017), Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic (2019), Magnetic Field (2020) and his acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (2007). He writes extensively for television and radio, and is the author of two novels and the non-fiction bestsellers All Points North (1998), Walking Home (2012) and Walking Away (2015). His theatre works include The Last Days of Troy, performed at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, and, in 2018, he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Simon Armitage is Poet Laureate.
Title: New Cemetery
Author: Simon Armitage
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication date: 25 Sept. 2025
Edition: Main
Language: English
Print length: 120 pages
ISBN-10: 0571357334
ISBN-13: 978-0571357338
Hardback
£14.99
‘There is no other poet writing in modern Britain who has his feeling for its words and things: the cashpoints, the power tools, the “mail-order driftwood”; the clichés, the jokes, the unspoken emotions . . . the most popular English poet since Larkin.’
Sunday Times
‘Armitage is that rare beast: a poet whose work is ambitious, accomplished and complex as well as popular.’
Sunday Telegraph
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Vrijheid is een open boek
In Nederland lijkt het vanzelfsprekend dat je alles kunt lezen. Maar die vrijheid is niet overal zo normaal. De Week van het Verboden Boek is geïnspireerd op de Amerikaanse Banned Books Week en wordt dit jaar voor het eerst in Nederland georganiseerd. Bibliotheken in het hele land doen mee, met lezingen, gesprekken, boekentafels en andere activiteiten.
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This is the first publication in English of the anthology that contains Breton’s definitive statement on l’humour noir, one of the seminal concepts of Surrealism, and his provocative assessments of the writers he most admired.
While some of the authors featured in The Anthology of Black Humor are already well known to American readers–Swift, Kafka, Rimbaud, Poe, Lewis Carroll, and Baudelaire among them (and even then, Breton’s selections are often surprising)–many others are sure to come as a revelation.
The entries range from the acerbic aphorisms of Swift, Lichtenberg, and Duchamp to the theatrical slapstick of Christian Dietrich Grabbe, from the wry missives of Rimbaud and Jacques Vache to the manic paranoia of Dali, from the ferocious iconoclasm of Alfred Jarry and Arthur Craven to the offhand hilarity of Apollinaire at his most spontaneous.
For each of the forty-five authors included, Breton has provided an enlightening biographical and critical preface, situating both the writer and the work in the context of black humor–a partly macabre, partly ironic, and often absurd turn of spirit that Breton defined as “a superior revolt of the mind.”
“Anthologies can aim to be groundbreaking or thought-provoking; few can be said to have introduced a new phrase–or a new concept–into the language. No one had ever used the term “black humour” before this one came along, unless, perhaps, it was from a racial angle.”–The Guardian
Andre Breton (1896-1966), the founder and principal theorist of the Surrealist movement, is one of the major literary figures of the past century. His best-known works in English translation include Nadja, Mad Love, The Manifestoes of Surrealism, The Magnetic Fields (with Philippe Soupault), and Earthlight. Mark Polizzotti is the author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton.
Mark Polizzotti is an author, translator, and publisher living in New York. His books include Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Highway 61 Revisited, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters.
His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, Apollo, ARTnews, The Nation, Parnassus, Bookforum, and elsewhere. His translations of works by Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Rimbaud, Scholastique Mukasonga, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, Eric Vuillard, among others, have won the English PEN Award and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, the International Booker Prize, the NBCC/Gregg Barrios Prize, and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize.
He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature.
Anthology of Black Humor
by André Breton
Translator: Mark Polizzotti
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Language: English
356 pages
ISBN-10: 0872863212
ISBN-13: 978-0872863217
Paperback 1997
Price: $26.95
E-book 2021 (978-0872868496)
Price: $18,99
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Feeling All the Kills is a dazzling new collection that breaks the poet’s silence on what it means to experience and live in the wake of a violent assault and rape.
Calcutt weaves stunning musicality with raw, unhindered storytelling, as the poems both collectively, and in their individual power, explore the distinctly connected, yet fractured selves of ‘sexual being’, ‘mother’ and ‘abused person’.
Through the poems’ breathtaking and vital vocabulary Calcutt brings the physical, emotional, and sexual nuances of life to the foreground, with strength, subtlety and beauty, and courageously harnesses a sense of ownership over such a lasting trauma.
At the heart of this collection is a personal desire to navigate a way back to a sensual, whole-feeling self, to shamelessly ‘feel all’ — with authenticity and power.
Helen Calcutt is a leading artist and choreographer working with a specialism in text embodiment within theatre & movement. She is the author of three volumes of poetry and Artistic Director of dance-theatre company ‘Beyond Words‘.
Her writing has been published globally. ‘Somehow’ (Verve Poetry Press, 2020), was a PBS Winter Bulletin Pamphlet & Poetry School Book of the Year (2020). Anthology ‘Eighty-Four’ (Verve Press, 2019), created in aid of the suicide prevention charity C.A.L.M. was a Saboteur Award shortlist & a Poetry Wales Book of the Year, 2019. Her full-length collection ‘Feeling All the Kills’ was published by Pavilion Poetry, April 2024.
Feeling All the Kills
by Helen Calcutt (Author)
Pavilion Poetry
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
28 April 2024
Language : English
Paperback : 84 pages
ISBN-10 : 1802074724
ISBN-13 : 978-1802074727
£10.11
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Der Sänger
Was hör ich draußen vor dem Tor,
Was auf der Brücke schallen?
Laß den Gesang vor unserm Ohr
Im Saale widerhallen!
Der König sprachs, der Page lief;
Der Knabe kam, der König rief:
Laßt mir herein den Alten!
Gegrüßet seid mir, edle Herrn,
Gegrüßt ihr, schöne Damen!
Welch reicher Himmel, Stern bei Stern!
Wer kennet ihre Namen?
Im Saal voll Pracht und Herrlichkeit
Schließt, Augen, euch; hier ist nicht Zeit,
Sich staunend zu ergetzen.
Der Sänger drückt’ die Augen ein
Und schlug in vollen Tönen;
Die Ritter schauten mutig drein,
Und in den Schoß die Schönen.
Der König, dem das Lied gefiel,
Ließ, ihn zu ehren für sein Spiel,
Eine goldne Kette holen.
Die goldne Kette gib mir nicht,
Die Kette gib den Rittern,
Vor deren kühnem Angesicht
Der Feinde Lanzen splittern;
Gib sie dem Kanzler, den du hast,
Und laß ihn noch die goldne Last
Zu andern Lasten tragen.
Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt,
Der in den Zweigen wohnet;
Das Lied, das aus der Kehle dringt,
Ist Lohn, der reichlich lohnet.
Doch darf ich bitten, bitt ich eins:
Laß mir den besten Becher Weins
In purem Golde reichen.
Er setzt’ ihn an, er trank ihn aus:
O Trank voll süßer Labe!
O wohl dem hochbeglückten Haus,
Wo das ist kleine Gabe!
Ergehts euch wohl, so denkt an mich,
Und danket Gott so warm, als ich
Für diesen Trunk euch danke.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(1749-1832)
Der Sänger
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