Friendship (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious beenThe task of small professors to invent; A ...
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious beenThe task of small professors to invent; A ...
Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee—Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?Who ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,—The oak falls prostrate at ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united—yet in truth,While in the bud they seem the same—the virgin and the ...
Do I dream? can I trust to my eye? My sight sure some vapor must cover?Or, there, did my Minna ...
Believe me, together The bright gods come ever, ...
Wilt thou not the lambkins guard? Oh, how soft and meek they look,Feeding on the grassy sward, Sporting round the ...
Three words will I name thee—around and about, From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;But they ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;But ...
Who would himself with shadows entertain,Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,Or nurse false hopes that do ...
She sought to breathe one word, but vainly; Too many listeners were nigh;And yet my timid glance read plainly The ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore;Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as before,Who ...
Could I from this valley drear, Where the mist hangs heavily,Soar to some more blissful sphere, Ah! how happy should ...
Are the sports of our youth so displeasing? Is love but the folly you say?Benumbed with the ...
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers Who, with the accents of life, listening ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting,Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining; Wearily ...
Humanity's bright image to impair. Scorn laid thee prostrate in the deepest dust;Wit wages ceaseless war on all that's fair,— ...
To Archimedes once a scholar came,"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;—The godlike art which gives such ...
Where sails the ship?—It leads the Tyrian forthFor the rich amber of the liberal north.Be kind, ye seas—winds, lend your ...
I have a heartfelt aversion for crime,—a twofold aversion, Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much."What! ...
God alone sees the heart and therefore, since he alone sees it, Be it our care that ...
What thou thinkest, belongs to all; what thou feelest, is thine only. Wouldst thou make him thine own, feel ...
I have a heartfelt aversion for crime,--a twofold aversion, Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much. ...
The tyrant Dionys to seek, Stern Moerus with his poniard crept; The watchful guard upon him swept; The grim king ...
Are the sports of our youth so displeasing? Is love but the folly you say? Benumbed with the winter, and ...
What thou thinkest, belongs to all; what thou feelest, is thine only. Wouldst thou make him thine own, feel thou ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright, Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice-- Moons ...
Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee-- Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto ...
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