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, ...
. Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
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 ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below?See! I hurl in its ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwineRapture must render each glance bright and ...
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 ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium,Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come!Fashion's laws, ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledgeTo roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,The priesthood's secret learning to ...
What wonder this?—we ask the lympid well,O earth! of thee—and from thy solemn wombWhat yieldest thou?—is there life in the ...
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious beenThe task of small professors to invent; A ...
Before his lion-court,Impatient for the sport, King Francis sat one day;The peers of his realm sat around,And in balcony high ...
See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet; And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those ...
When o'er the chords thy fingers stray,My spirit leaves its mortal clay, A statue there I stand;Thy spell controls e'en ...
I see her still—by her fair train surrounded, The fairest of them all, she took her place;Afar I stood, by ...
Who would himself with shadows entertain,Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,Or nurse false hopes that do ...
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath,And to the waves the wreath consigned— ...
Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed, Radiant with sportive grace, around thee plays;Yet 'tis not as depicted ...
No! I this conflict longer will not wage, The conflict duty claims—the giant task;—Thy spells, O virtue, never can assuage ...
Could I from this valley drear, Where the mist hangs heavily,Soar to some more blissful sphere, Ah! how happy should ...
Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free,To humble shepherds cloth appear ...
Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou!With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome ...
Full many a shining wit one sees, With tongue on all things well conversing;The what can charm, ...
Do what is good, and humanity's godlike plant thou wilt nourish; Plan what is fair, and thou'lt ...
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