The Veiled Statue At Sais (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledgeTo roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,The priesthood's secret learning to ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledgeTo roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,The priesthood's secret learning to ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,—With all the thoughts that joy or grieve ...
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,Daughter of Elysium,Fire drunken we are ent'ringHeavenly, thy holy home!Thy enchantments bind together,What did custom stern ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest,When into the hall comes the Minstrel ...
What wonder this?—we ask the lympid well,O earth! of thee—and from thy solemn wombWhat yieldest thou?—is there life in the ...
Do I believe, sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,And what their followers' band boldly and readily ...
Heavy and solemn,A cloudy column, Through the green plain they marching came!Measure less spread, like a table dread,For the ...
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 ...
. Yes, my friends!—that happier times have been Than the present, none can contravene; ...
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 ...
Before his lion-court,Impatient for the sport, King Francis sat one day;The peers of his realm sat around,And in balcony high ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,—The oak falls prostrate at ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united—yet in truth,While in the bud they seem the same—the virgin and the ...
Do I dream? can I trust to my eye? My sight sure some vapor must cover?Or, there, did my Minna ...
See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet; And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those ...
O Freunde, nicht diese Tone! Sondern lasst uns angenehmere anstimmen Und freudenvollere! Freude schoner ...
To the solemn abyss leads the terrible path, The life and death winding dizzy between;In thy desolate way, grim with ...
Believe me, together The bright gods come ever, ...
On the mountain's breezy summit, Where the southern sunbeams shine,Aided by their warming vigor, Nature yields the golden wine.How the ...
Wilt thou not the lambkins guard? Oh, how soft and meek they look,Feeding on the grassy sward, Sporting round the ...
Three words will I name thee—around and about, From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;But they ...
When o'er the chords thy fingers stray,My spirit leaves its mortal clay, A statue there I stand;Thy spell controls e'en ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;But ...
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 ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright,With the grace with which he sat While he saw the light.Where ...
Who would himself with shadows entertain,Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,Or nurse false hopes that do ...
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