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, ...
. Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the ...
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 ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
Once to the song and chariot-fight,Where all the tribes of Greece uniteOn Corinth's isthmus joyously,The god-loved Ibycus drew nigh.On him ...
An die FreudeFreude, schoener Goetterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.Deine Zauber binden wiederWas der Mode Schwert geteiltBettler werden FuerstenbruederWo ...
What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below?See! I hurl in its ...
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwineRapture must render each glance bright and ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time.Well, be it ...
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 ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
. Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood—the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, ...
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain?Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft brooklets ...
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 ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
. "I Can love thee well, believe me, As a sister true; Other ...
. 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 ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,—With all the thoughts that joy or grieve ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,— Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be ...
Friend!—the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious beenThe task of small professors to invent; A ...
Past the despairing wail—And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away!Delight, that breathes and moves forever,Glides ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright,With the grace with which he sat While he saw the light.Where ...
Take the world! Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skiesTo the children of man—"take the world I now give;It ...
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath,And to the waves the wreath consigned— ...
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