The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear,Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear.She was so ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
Once to the song and chariot-fight,Where all the tribes of Greece uniteOn Corinth's isthmus joyously,The god-loved Ibycus drew nigh.On him ...
What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below?See! I hurl in its ...
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time.Well, be it ...
By love are blest the gods on high,Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given;'Tis love that ...
. Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the brightIdalia cradles, whose young ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
Do I believe, sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,And what their followers' band boldly and readily ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,— Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole—Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic By ...
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious beenThe task of small professors to invent; A ...
Honor to woman! To her it is givenTo garden the earth with the roses of heaven! All blessed, she linketh ...
Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee—Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?Who ...
Past the despairing wail—And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away!Delight, that breathes and moves forever,Glides ...
I see her still—by her fair train surrounded, The fairest of them all, she took her place;Afar I stood, by ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;But ...
Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed, Radiant with sportive grace, around thee plays;Yet 'tis not as depicted ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore;Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as before,Who ...
No! I this conflict longer will not wage, The conflict duty claims—the giant task;—Thy spells, O virtue, never can assuage ...
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers Who, with the accents of life, listening ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved?Is not now each earthly conflict ended? ...
Angel-fair, Walhalla's charms displaying, Fairer than all mortal youths was he;Mild his look, as May-day sunbeams straying Gently o'er the ...
We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul, Of some better and fairer day;And our days, the ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole-- Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
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