Group From Tartarus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Hark! like the sea in wrath the heavens assailing,Or like a brook through rocky basin wailing,Comes from below, in groaning ...
Hark! like the sea in wrath the heavens assailing,Or like a brook through rocky basin wailing,Comes from below, in groaning ...
Four elements, joined in Harmonious strife, Shadow the world forth, And typify life. Into the goblet The lemon's juice pour; ...
To Archimedes once a scholar came,"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;—The godlike art which gives such ...
Far away, where darkness reigneth, All my dreams of bliss are flown;Yet with love my gaze remaineth Fixed on one ...
Two genii are there, from thy birth through weary life to guide thee; Ah, happy when, united both, they stand ...
By no kind Augustus reared,To no Medici endeared, German art arose;Fostering glory smiled not on her,Ne'er with kingly smiles to ...
Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar,When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of the ...
Play on thy mother's bosom, babe, for in that holy isleThe error cannot find thee yet, the grieving, nor the ...
Monument of our own age's shame,On thy country casting endless blame, Rousseau's grave, how dear thou art to meCalm repose ...
Steer on, bold sailor—Wit may mock thy soul that sees the land,And hopeless at the helm may droop the weak ...
Mighty art thou, because of the peaceful charms of thy presence; That which the silent does not, never the boastful ...
We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul, Of some better and fairer day;And our days, the ...
Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water; Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's ...
That which Grecian art created,Let the Frank, with joy elated, Bear to Seine's triumphant strand,And in his museums gloriousShow the ...
Where sails the ship?—It leads the Tyrian forthFor the rich amber of the liberal north.Be kind, ye seas—winds, lend your ...
Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,— Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the ...
Oh thou degenerate child of the great and glorious mother, Who with the Romans' strong might couplest the Tyrians' deceit!But ...
Many are good and wise; yet all for one only reckon, For 'tis conception, alas, rules them, ...
Millions busily toil, that the human race may continue; But by only a few is propagated our kind. Thousands ...
Scarce has the fever so chilly of Gallomania departed,When a more burning attack in Grecomania breaks out.Greekism,—what did it mean?—'Twas ...
Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so. 'Tis through the reason thou'rt ...
Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies; Think ye Nature but great, in that ...
Wouldst thou, my friend, mount up to the highest summit of wisdom, Be not deterred by the ...
When the column of light on the waters is glassed, As blent in one glow seem the shine and the ...
Majesty of the nature of man! In crowds shall I seek thee? 'Tis with only a few ...
Thou hast produced mighty monarchs, of whom thou art not unworthy, For the obedient alone make him ...
Both of us seek for truth—in the world without thou dost seek it, I in the bosom ...
Give me only a fragment of earth beyond the earth's limits,— So the godlike man said,—"and I ...
I have a heartfelt aversion for crime,—a twofold aversion, Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much."What! ...
Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward; If thou should find the one barred, open ...
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