The Artists (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough,Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime,With unlocked senses, ...
Why run the crowd? What means the throngThat rushes fast the streets along?Can Rhodes a prey to flames, then, be?In ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
. At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array, In its halls renowned in old story, At ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear,Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear.She was so ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; ...
By love are blest the gods on high,Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given;'Tis love that ...
. Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From ...
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
Laura! a sunrise seems to break Where'er thy happy looks may glow.Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek,Thy tears themselves ...
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay,And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his prey,Sat ...
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the brightIdalia cradles, whose young ...
Yes! even I was in Arcadia born, And, in mine infant ears,A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn;—Yes! ...
. Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many ...
Upon his battlements he stood,And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway,"All this is ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledgeTo roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,The priesthood's secret learning to ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,—With all the thoughts that joy or grieve ...
Do I believe, sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,And what their followers' band boldly and readily ...
Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling Bodies to unite in one blest whole—Name, my Laura, name the wondrous magic By ...
Three words will I name thee—around and about, From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;But they ...
I see her still—by her fair train surrounded, The fairest of them all, she took her place;Afar I stood, by ...
Who would himself with shadows entertain,Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,Or nurse false hopes that do ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore;Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as before,Who ...
Good from the good,—to the reason this is not hard of conception; But the genius has power good from ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land, The priesthood's secret ...
Laura! a sunrise seems to break Where'er thy happy looks may glow. Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek, Thy ...
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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