The Conflict (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
No! I this conflict longer will not wage, The conflict duty claims--the giant task;-- Thy spells, O virtue, never can ...
No! I this conflict longer will not wage, The conflict duty claims--the giant task;-- Thy spells, O virtue, never can ...
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath, And to the waves the wreath consigned-- The waves ...
See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet; And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those ...
Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou! With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome now! Aha!--and thou returnest, Heartily ...
"What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below? See! I hurl in ...
Do what is good, and humanity's godlike plant thou wilt nourish; Plan what is fair, and thou'lt strew seeds of ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwine Rapture must render each glance ...
Before his lion-court, Impatient for the sport, King Francis sat one day; The peers of his realm sat around, And ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
Full many a shining wit one sees, With tongue on all things well conversing; The what can charm, the what ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear, Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear. She ...
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time. Well, be ...
Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious been The task of small professors to invent; ...
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Humanity's bright image to impair. Scorn laid thee prostrate in the deepest dust; Wit wages ceaseless war on all that's ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium, Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come! ...
Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free, To humble shepherds cloth appear A wondrous maiden, ...
Could I from this valley drear, Where the mist hangs heavily, Soar to some more blissful sphere, Ah! how happy ...
I see her still--by her fair train surrounded, The fairest of them all, she took her place; Afar I stood, ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; E'en in a moment it ...
"Who would himself with shadows entertain, Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain, Or nurse false hopes ...
What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well, O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb What yieldest thou?--is there life ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land, The priesthood's secret ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?-- Can I conceive the woes that try men, When late repentance racks the ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
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