Elysium (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Past the despairing wail—And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away!Delight, that breathes and moves forever,Glides ...
Past the despairing wail—And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away!Delight, that breathes and moves forever,Glides ...
I see her still—by her fair train surrounded, The fairest of them all, she took her place;Afar I stood, by ...
She sought to breathe one word, but vainly; Too many listeners were nigh;And yet my timid glance read plainly The ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, In ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved?Is not now each earthly conflict ended? ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
From earth I seem to wing my flight,And sun myself in Heaven's pure light, When thy sweet gaze meets mineI ...
Hast thou the infant seen that yet, unknowing of the loveWhich warms and cradles, calmly sleeps the mother's heart above—Wandering ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin;And dreams that all without shall ...
Far away, where darkness reigneth, All my dreams of bliss are flown;Yet with love my gaze remaineth Fixed on one ...
Rightly said, Schlosser! Man loves what he has; what he has not, desireth; None but the wealthy minds love; poor ...
Man frames his judgment on reason; but woman on love founds her verdict;If her judgment loves not, woman already has ...
From earth I seem to wing my flight, And sun myself in Heaven's pure light, When thy sweet gaze meets ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united--yet in truth, While in the bud they seem the same--the virgin and ...
Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, through the dim air stirs; The ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From the golden lute so thrilling Hymns of ...
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! ...
Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many a man, to many a knight, Beloved ...
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain? Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best; ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwine Rapture must render each glance ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved? Is not now each earthly conflict ...
Past the despairing wail-- And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away! Delight, that breathes and ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain, Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, ...
Far away, where darkness reigneth, All my dreams of bliss are flown; Yet with love my gaze remaineth Fixed on ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole-- Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic ...
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