The Minor Poems of Schiller of the Second and Third Periods: With a Few of Those of Earlier DateW. Pickering, 1844 - 416 pages |
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... deep feeling that Form is of the very essence of poetry , and that the soul itself escapes and evaporates in the transfusion of the sentiment into another shape of outward vehicle . And this is perhaps the reason why we have so few ...
... deep feeling that Form is of the very essence of poetry , and that the soul itself escapes and evaporates in the transfusion of the sentiment into another shape of outward vehicle . And this is perhaps the reason why we have so few ...
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... deep sense of a superintending providence , and the noble aspirations after immortality , which mark so many of the poet's later effusions ; and his lofty preference of the " things of the spirit " over the paltry objects and ...
... deep sense of a superintending providence , and the noble aspirations after immortality , which mark so many of the poet's later effusions ; and his lofty preference of the " things of the spirit " over the paltry objects and ...
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... deep fall's shame as light as I bear mine . She sees the worm corrode my manhood's bloom , And spent , my vernal prime ! Silent admires the self - renouncing deed sublime , And liberally awards my compensation's doom . Mistrust this ...
... deep fall's shame as light as I bear mine . She sees the worm corrode my manhood's bloom , And spent , my vernal prime ! Silent admires the self - renouncing deed sublime , And liberally awards my compensation's doom . Mistrust this ...
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... deep mysterious truth By easy riddles led thee to conjecture : Who into stranger arms her nursling gave , Only to welcome back in ripen'd state— Oh fall not off , with will degenerate * In this introductory stanza , the thought of which ...
... deep mysterious truth By easy riddles led thee to conjecture : Who into stranger arms her nursling gave , Only to welcome back in ripen'd state— Oh fall not off , with will degenerate * In this introductory stanza , the thought of which ...
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... deep quiet instinct taught In bands harmonious to unite . Free - soaring to the cedar's tapering height The unconscious glance was upward led- The river back reflected , crystal bright , The graceful image bounding on its bed . And ...
... deep quiet instinct taught In bands harmonious to unite . Free - soaring to the cedar's tapering height The unconscious glance was upward led- The river back reflected , crystal bright , The graceful image bounding on its bed . And ...
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Page 378 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot Who do thy work, and know it not: Oh!
Page 382 - 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 410 - mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty, That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and wat'ry depths ; all these have vanished ; They live no longer in the faith of reason...
Page 376 - 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 newborn blisses, A six years
Page 378 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth: Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot, Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh, if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power!
Page 389 - 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 415 - Calmer and calmer ; 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 398 - 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 410 - 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 every thing that's fair!
Page 378 - No sport of every random gust, Yet being to myself a guide, Too blindly have reposed my trust; And oft, when in my heart was heard Thy timely mandate, I deferred...