The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
STROPHE IV Though Zeus plan all things right, Yet is his heart's desire full hard to trace; ...
From out the desolation of the North An iceberg took it away,From its detaining comrades breaking forth, And ...
For unknown ages, mid his wild abode,Speechless *nd rude the human savage trode;By slow degrees expressive sounds acquired,And simple thoughts ...
The earth was without form and void; the deep Wore on its face a pall of death-like gloom. A secret ...
Dear, noble friend! a virgin cask Of wine solicits your attention;And roses fair, to deck your hair, And things too ...
I cannot hide from thee how much I fearThe whispers breathed by flatterers in thine earAgainst my faith: — but ...
For England when with favoring gale Our gallant ship up channel steered,And, scudding under easy sail, ...
Whichever way the wind doth blow, Some heart is glad to have it so; Then blow it east or blow ...
There are no gods that bring to youthThe rich rewards that stalwarts claim;The god of fortune is in truthA vision ...
If, on a quiet sea, toward heaven we calmly sail,With grateful hearts, O God, to Thee,We'll own the favoring gale,With ...
Ye, whose aspirings court the Muse of lays "Severest of those orders which belong Distinct and separate to Delphic song" ...
With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! ...
Outbound, your bark awaits you. Were I one Whose prayer availeth much, my wish should be Your favoring trad-wind and ...
To the Memory of the Household It Describes This Poem is Dedicated by the Author "As the Spirit of Darkness ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
The steadfastness of generations of nobility shows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows. And the blue eyes still ...
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