The Minor Poems of Schiller of the Second and Third Periods: With a Few of Those of Earlier DatePickering, 1844 - 416 pages |
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Æther ANDROMACHE arms Ballad beauteous Beauty behold blest bliss bosom breast breath bright brow burst Ceres Charybdis cherish'd Chimæra Cocytus Count of Habsburg dance dark deep descending dread Earth Erwartung eternal fair Fate feeling fierce flood flowers Franz Horn Genius German glad glide glory glow Gods Goethe golden grace hand happy Hark hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hoffmeister holy hope human Ibycus immortal Isthmian games Jove King Life's light Love LOVE possessed Love's Madame de Stael metre mighty mortal mountain Nature ne'er never night o'er Ocean Orcus peace poem Poet Poet's poetical Poetry render round Savern Schiller seek sense sentiment shore silent smiles soft song sorrow soul spirit stands stanzas Stavoren sweet swell swift tears thee thine thought thro throng Toggenburg Truth veil vex'd voice wave Whilst wild wings wouldst thou youth
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Page 407 - Since likewise for the stricken heart of Love This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow : yea, a deeper import Lurks in the legend told my infant years Than lies upon that truth, we live to learn. For fable is Love's world, his home, his birthplace : Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine.
Page 380 - And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of all?
Page 374 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own ; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And even with something of a Mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely Nurse doth all she can To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man, Forget the glories he hath known, And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the child among his new-born blisses A six years...
Page 387 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 413 - ; simple but memorable words, expressive of the mild heroism of the man. About six he sank into a deep sleep ; once for a moment he looked up with a lively air, and said, " Many things were growing plain and clear to him!
Page 371 - GODS of Hellas, gods of Hellas, Can ye listen in your silence ? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide ? In floating islands, With a wind that evermore Keeps you out of sight of shore ? Pan, Pan is dead.
Page 396 - Love, now a universal birth, From heart to heart is stealing, From earth to man, from man to earth : It is the hour of feeling.
Page 372 - Called on the lovely wanderer who bestowed That timely light, to share his joyous sport ; And hence, a beaming goddess with her nymphs. Across the lawn and through the darksome grove (Not unaccompanied with tuneful notes By echo multiplied from rock or cave) Swept in the storm of chase, as Moon and Stars Glance rapidly along the clouded heaven, When winds are blowing strong.
Page 407 - Tis not merely The human being's pride that people space With life and mystical predominance ; Since likewise for the stricken heart of Love This visible nature, and this common world, Is all too narrow...
Page 408 - They live no longer in the faith of reason ! But still the heart doth need a language, still Doth the old instinct bring back the old names. And to yon starry world they now are gone, Spirits or gods, that used to share this earth With man as with their friend ; and to the lover Yonder they move, from yonder visible sky Shoot influence down: and even at this day 'Tis Jupiter who brings whate'er is great, And Venus who brings everything that's fair ! THEKLA.