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, ...
Friedrich von Schiller Poems (312 Poems)
The Lay Of The Bell (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. Fast, in its prison-walls of earth, Awaits the mould of baked clay. Up, comrades, up, and aid the ...
The Fight With The Dragon (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Why run the crowd? What means the throngThat rushes fast the streets along?Can Rhodes a prey to flames, then, be?In ...
The Walk (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit! Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly ...
The Cranes Of Ibycus (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
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 ...
Ode To Joy — With Translation (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
An die FreudeFreude, schoener Goetterfunken,Tochter aus Elysium,Wir betreten feuertrunken,Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.Deine Zauber binden wiederWas der Mode Schwert geteiltBettler werden FuerstenbruederWo ...
The Count Of Hapsburg (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array, In its halls renowned in old story, At ...
The Driver (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
What knight or what vassal will be so bold As to plunge in the gulf below?See! I hurl in its ...
The Eleusinian Festival (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear! With it, the Cyane blue intertwineRapture must render each glance bright and ...
Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory) (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
A gentle was Fridolin, And he his mistress dear,Savern's fair Countess, honored in All truth and godly fear.She was so ...
The Celebrated Woman – An Epistle By A Married Man (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Can I, my friend, with thee condole?— Can I conceive the woes that try men,When late repentance racks the soul ...
Parables And Riddles (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; ...
Hero And Leander (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
See you the towers, that, gray and old,Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep?The Hellespont beneath them ...
Cassandra (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. Mirth the halls of Troy was filling, Ere its lofty ramparts fell; From ...
The Ideal And The Actual Life (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Forever fair, forever calm and bright,Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light, For those who on the Olympian hill rejoice—Moons wane, and ...
The Infanticide (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady, The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time.Well, be it ...
The Triumph Of Love (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
By love are blest the gods on high,Frail man becomes a deity When love to him is given;'Tis love that ...
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 marked ...
The Fortune-Favo (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the brightIdalia cradles, whose young ...
Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe;Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! Bearing ...
A Funeral Fantasie (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood—the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, ...
The Complaint Of Ceres (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Does pleasant spring return once more? Does earth her happy youth regain?Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er; Soft brooklets ...
Melancholy — To Laura (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Laura! a sunrise seems to break Where'er thy happy looks may glow.Joy sheds its roses o'er thy cheek,Thy tears themselves ...
Feast Of Victory (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Priam's castle-walls had sunk, Troy in dust and ashes lay,And each Greek, with triumph drunk, Richly laden with his prey,Sat ...
The Gods Of Greece (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Ye in the age gone by,Who ruled the world—a world how lovely then!—And guided still the steps of happy men ...
Resignation (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Yes! even I was in Arcadia born, And, in mine infant ears,A vow of rapture was by Nature sworn;—Yes! ...
The Knight Of Toggenburg (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. "I Can love thee well, believe me, As a sister true; Other ...
Hymn To Joy (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Joy, thou goddess, fair, immortal, Offspring of Elysium,Mad with rapture, to the portal Of thy holy fame we come!Fashion's laws, ...
Count Eberhard, The Groaner Of Wurtembert. A War Song (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
. Now hearken, ye who take delight In boasting of your worth! To many ...
The Ring Of Polycrates – A Ballad (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Upon his battlements he stood,And downward gazed in joyous mood, On Samos' Isle, that owned his sway,"All this is ...