Untitled 01 (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Tell me all that thou knowest, and I will thankfully hear it! But wouldst thou give me thyself,—let me, ...
Tell me all that thou knowest, and I will thankfully hear it! But wouldst thou give me thyself,—let me, ...
The tyrant Dionys to seek, Stern Moerus with his poniard crept; The watchful guard upon him swept; The grim king ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From the golden lute so thrilling Hymns of ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,-- With all the thoughts that joy or ...
Deeper and bolder truths be careful, my friends, of avowing; For as soon as ye do all the world on ...
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
Enraged against a quondam friend, To Wisdom once proud Fortune said "I'll give thee treasures without end, If thou wilt ...
"Who would himself with shadows entertain, Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain, Or nurse false hopes ...
Dearly I love a friend; yet a foe I may turn to my profit; Friends show me that which I ...
Upon his battlements he stood, And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway, "All this ...
Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious been The task of small professors to invent; ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath, And to the waves the wreath consigned-- The waves ...
Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called to the throne. ...
"I Have sacrificed all," thou sayest, "that man I might succor; Vain the attempt; my reward was persecution and hate." ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium, Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come! ...
Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies; Think ye Nature but great, in that she ...
All that thou doest is right; but, friend, don't carry this precept On too far,--be content, all that is right ...
Yes, my friends!--that happier times have been Than the present, none can contravene; That a race once lived of nobler ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,-- Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen. ...
Wouldst thou, my friend, mount up to the highest summit of wisdom, Be not deterred by the fear, prudence thy ...
Heavy and solemn, A cloudy column, Through the green plain they marching came! Measure less spread, like a table dread, ...
"How can I know the best state?" In the way that thou know'st the best woman; Namely, my friend, that ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?-- Can I conceive the woes that try men, When late repentance racks the ...
Lovely he looks, 'tis true, with the light of his torch now extinguished; But remember that death is not aesthetic, ...
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