This has to be one of my favourite pieces of poetry, behind Robert W. Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee (my ultimate favorite).
Goethe wrote Der Erlkoenig and it has since been set to music (a shout out here to Rhonda- she sang it wonderfully during one of her performances!). I love the way you can hear the horse riding in the first line.* And a giant plus- now that I've been in Germany for a while now, my pronunciation doesn't suck so bad and I am now capable of reading it aloud. The link above also includes a few different translations on the page, some better than others.
If you are not so interested in reading the poem, you can check it out here. There are like a million versions of this one YouTube, but I like this one the best b/c of the facial expressions of the guy singing it :D
*The last line always make me a bit sad though- stupid Erlkoenig.
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