The Division Of The Earth (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Take the world! Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skiesTo the children of man—"take the world I now give;It ...
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— ...
Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing Went I forth the world to roam—And the dance of youth, the glowing, Left I ...
The clouds fast gather, The forest-oaks roar— A maiden is sitting Beside the ...
Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed, Radiant with sportive grace, around thee plays;Yet 'tis not as depicted ...
Through the world which the Spirit creative and kindFirst formed out of chaos, I fly like the wind,Until on the ...
She sought to breathe one word, but vainly; Too many listeners were nigh;And yet my timid glance read plainly The ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore;Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as before,Who ...
Ye offspring of the morning sun, Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,Your lives, in joy and bliss begun, In ...
No! I this conflict longer will not wage, The conflict duty claims—the giant task;—Thy spells, O virtue, never can assuage ...
Could I from this valley drear, Where the mist hangs heavily,Soar to some more blissful sphere, Ah! how happy should ...
Within a vale, each infant year, When earliest larks first carol free,To humble shepherds cloth appear ...
Are the sports of our youth so displeasing? Is love but the folly you say?Benumbed with the ...
What shall I do lest life in silence pass? "And if it do, And never ...
Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances,Silent stands the past ...
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers Who, with the accents of life, listening ...
Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called ...
Whither was it that my spirit wended When from thee my fleeting shadow moved?Is not now each earthly conflict ended? ...
Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals; But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of ...
From earth I seem to wing my flight,And sun myself in Heaven's pure light, When thy sweet gaze meets mineI ...
Hast thou the infant seen that yet, unknowing of the loveWhich warms and cradles, calmly sleeps the mother's heart above—Wandering ...
Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting,Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining; Wearily ...
Full many a shining wit one sees, With tongue on all things well conversing;The what can charm, ...
Humanity's bright image to impair. Scorn laid thee prostrate in the deepest dust;Wit wages ceaseless war on all that's fair,— ...
Welcome, gentle Stripling, Nature's darling thou!With thy basket full of blossoms, A happy welcome ...
Angel-fair, Walhalla's charms displaying, Fairer than all mortal youths was he;Mild his look, as May-day sunbeams straying Gently o'er the ...
In cheerful faith that fears no ill The good man doth the world begin;And dreams that all without shall ...
I Have sacrificed all, thou sayest, "that man I might succor; Vain the attempt; my reward was ...
Enraged against a quondam friend, To Wisdom once proud Fortune said"I'll give thee treasures without end, If thou wilt be ...
Since thou readest in her what thou thyself hast there written, And, to gladden the eye, placest her wonders ...
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