The Hostage (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
The tyrant Dionys to seek, Stern Moerus with his poniard crept; The watchful guard upon him swept; The grim king ...
The tyrant Dionys to seek, Stern Moerus with his poniard crept; The watchful guard upon him swept; The grim king ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,-- With all the thoughts that joy or ...
"Who would himself with shadows entertain, Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain, Or nurse false hopes ...
To Archimedes once a scholar came, "Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;-- The godlike art which ...
The foaming stream from out the rock With thunder roar begins to rush,-- The oak falls prostrate at the shock, ...
Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so. 'Tis through the reason thou'rt ...
Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
Upon his battlements he stood, And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway, "All this ...
Past the despairing wail-- And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away! Delight, that breathes and ...
See in the babe two loveliest flowers united--yet in truth, While in the bud they seem the same--the virgin and ...
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear, Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear. She ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land, The priesthood's secret ...
"Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me, And what their followers' band boldly and ...
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on! ...
Honor to woman! To her it is given To garden the earth with the roses of heaven! All blessed, she ...
Three errors there are, that forever are found On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best; ...
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium, Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come! ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin; And dreams that all without shall ...
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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