Read full poem →Venus shall give him form, and Antis birth.
(Believe me, many a German Prince is worse,
Who proud of pedigree, is poor of purse.)
Dictionary Entry
A near relative.
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Common Phrases
. germangovernment germanpeople germanarmy germanempire germantroops germangerman westgerman east
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Poetry examples for “german”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →He loosened the lid and handed the tin box back to me. I lifted the lid
and here was this cross, a German cross with a ribbon.
Read full poem →JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
From the German of Uhland . ieee
The Glory of the Day Was in Her Face
Read full poem →Let those whose pleasant chance
Took them, like me, among the German towns,
After the war that pluck'd the fangs from France,
Read full poem →That they might hate another girl to death
Or meet a German lover. Such a knife
I bought her, with a hilt of horn and pearL
Read full poem →For an Annunciation, Early German • • • • 343
Read full poem →omitted by us: the longest, taken from a poem — Der Arme
Heinrkh — is by Hart man n von Aue the old German minne-
singer.s An earlier effort consists of a version of Burger's
Read full poem →The judgment in English condemns you, where is there a judgment
To save you from this? Is it German, or Russian, or French?
Read full poem →German conveys some of its harsh meaning of slow death
by starvation. Another title with a special appeal to the
Read full poem →Accents have been removed. Diereses (umlauts) have been removed from English
words and replaced by “e” in German ones. The AE and OE digraphs have been
transcribed as two letters. The British pound (currency) sign has been replaced