The Maiden’s Lament (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
The clouds fast gather, The forest-oaks roar— A maiden is sitting Beside the ...
The clouds fast gather, The forest-oaks roar— A maiden is sitting Beside the ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, In ...
Hark! like the sea in wrath the heavens assailing,Or like a brook through rocky basin wailing,Comes from below, in groaning ...
Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar,When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of the ...
Many are good and wise; yet all for one only reckon, For 'tis conception, alas, rules them, ...
If thou never hast gazed upon beauty in moments of sorrow, Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true ...
See, he sitteth on his mat Sitteth there upright, With the grace with which he sat While he saw the ...
Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar, When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; E'en in a moment it ...
Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the birth The ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,-- Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen. ...
The clouds fast gather, The forest-oaks roar-- A maiden is sitting Beside the green shore,-- The billows are breaking with ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
Upon his battlements he stood, And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway, "All this ...
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?-- Can I conceive the woes that try men, When late repentance racks the ...
By love are blest the gods on high, Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given; 'Tis ...
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain? Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, through the dim air stirs; The ...
Once to the song and chariot-fight, Where all the tribes of Greece unite On Corinth's isthmus joyously, The god-loved Ibycus ...
Beside the brook the boy reclined And wove his flowery wreath, And to the waves the wreath consigned-- The waves ...
Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From the golden lute so thrilling Hymns of ...
"Take the world!" Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies To the children of man--"take the world I now ...
Many are good and wise; yet all for one only reckon, For 'tis conception, alas, rules them, and not a ...
Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many a man, to many a knight, Beloved ...
"What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below? See! I hurl in ...
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 ...
Past the despairing wail-- And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away! Delight, that breathes and ...
If thou never hast gazed upon beauty in moments of sorrow, Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true ...
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