The Merchant (Friedrich von Schiller Poems)
Where sails the ship?--It leads the Tyrian forth For the rich amber of the liberal north. Be kind, ye seas--winds, ...
Where sails the ship?--It leads the Tyrian forth For the rich amber of the liberal north. Be kind, ye seas--winds, ...
Two genii are there, from thy birth through weary life to guide thee; Ah, happy when, united both, they stand ...
That is the only true secret, which in the presence of all men Lies, and surrounds thee for ay, but ...
Pale, at its ghastly noon, Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon; The night-sprite, sighing, through the dim air stirs; The ...
Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers, Echo from the dreary house of woe; Death-notes rise from yonder minster's towers! ...
See you the towers, that, gray and old, Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold, Steep sternly fronting steep? The Hellespont ...
Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water; Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's wild yells, Through ...
Hear I the creaking gate unclose? The gleaming latch uplifted? No--'twas the wind that, whirring, rose, Amidst the poplars drifted! ...
If thou never hast gazed upon beauty in moments of sorrow, Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true ...
And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me, With all thy magic phantasy,-- With all the thoughts that joy or ...
If thou feelest not the beautiful, still thou with reason canst will it; And as a spirit canst do, that ...
Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward; If thou should find the one barred, open ...
"Give me only a fragment of earth beyond the earth's limits,"-- So the godlike man said,--"and I will move it ...
Let none resemble another; let each resemble the highest! How can that happen? let each be all complete in itself. ...
Past the despairing wail-- And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale Melt every care away! Delight, that breathes and ...
Honor to woman! To her it is given To garden the earth with the roses of heaven! All blessed, she ...
I. A bridge of pearls its form uprears High o'er a gray and misty sea; E'en in a moment it ...
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers Who, with the accents of life, listening nations ...
Once more, then, we meet In the circles of yore; Let our song be as sweet In its wreaths as ...
Tear forever the garland of Homer, and number the fathers Of the immortal work, that through all time will survive! ...
Stern as my conscience, thou seest the points wherein I'm deficient; Therefore I've always loved thee, as my own conscience ...
A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land, The priesthood's secret ...
What I had been without thee, I know not--yet, to my sorrow See I what, without thee, hundreds and thousands ...
What thou thinkest, belongs to all; what thou feelest, is thine only. Wouldst thou make him thine own, feel thou ...
Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting, Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining; Wearily move on thy ...
When the column of light on the waters is glassed, As blent in one glow seem the shine and the ...
E'en by the hand of the wicked can truth be working with vigor; But the vessel is filled by what ...
Heavy and solemn, A cloudy column, Through the green plain they marching came! Measure less spread, like a table dread, ...
Why run the crowd? What means the throng That rushes fast the streets along? Can Rhodes a prey to flames, ...
Good from the good,--to the reason this is not hard of conception; But the genius has power good from the ...
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