The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united--yet in truth, While in the bud they seem the same--the virgin and ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwine Rapture must render each glance ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore; Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land, The priesthood's secret ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium, Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come! ...
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright Idalia cradles, whose ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
God alone sees the heart and therefore, since he alone sees it, Be it our care that we, too, something ...
The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine, Bright glistens the eye of each guest, When into the hall comes the ...
Three words will I name thee--around and about, From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee; But ...
Could I from this valley drear, Where the mist hangs heavily, Soar to some more blissful sphere, Ah! how happy ...
Ye in the age gone by, Who ruled the world--a world how lovely then!-- And guided still the steps of ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best; ...
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 ...
To Archimedes once a scholar came, "Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;-- The godlike art which ...
What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well, O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb What yieldest thou?--is there life ...
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time. Well, be ...
Do I dream? can I trust to my eye? My sight sure some vapor must cover? Or, there, did my ...
Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From the golden lute so thrilling Hymns of ...
Wilt thou not the lambkins guard? Oh, how soft and meek they look, Feeding on the grassy sward, Sporting round ...
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