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, ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
An die FreudeFreude, schoener Goetterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.Deine Zauber binden wiederWas der Mode Schwert geteiltBettler werden FuerstenbruederWo ...
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 ...
The tyrant Dionys to seek, Stern Moerus with his poniard crept; The watchful guard upon him swept;The grim king marked ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
Yes! even I was in Arcadia born, And, in mine infant ears,A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn;—Yes! ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium,Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come!Fashion's laws, ...
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 ...
Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,Daughter of Elysium,Fire drunken we are ent'ringHeavenly, thy holy home!Thy enchantments bind together,What did custom stern ...
Do I believe, sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,And what their followers' band boldly and readily ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,— Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be ...
Honor to woman! To her it is givenTo garden the earth with the roses of heaven! All blessed, she linketh ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,—The oak falls prostrate at ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united—yet in truth,While in the bud they seem the same—the virgin and the ...
See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet; And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;But ...
Past the despairing wail—And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away!Delight, that breathes and moves forever,Glides ...
Who would himself with shadows entertain,Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,Or nurse false hopes that do ...
Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances,Silent stands the past ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin;And dreams that all without shall ...
To Archimedes once a scholar came,"Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;—The godlike art which gives such ...
Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so. 'Tis through the reason thou'rt ...
Wouldst thou teach me the truth? Don't take the trouble! I wish not, Through thee, the thing to observe,—but ...
I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,-- Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen. ...
How gracefully, O man, with thy palm-bough, Upon the waning century standest thou, In proud and noble manhood's prime, With ...
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