The poems of Schiller, complete, including all his early suppressed pieces, attempted in Engl. by E.A. Bowring |
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æther ANDROMACHE arms art thou beauteous Beroë blest bliss bosom breast breath bright Cadmus canst Ceres charms Cocytus daring dark death Deity divine dread dream e'en e'er earth Epidaurus ev'ry evermore fair fearful fierce fill'd flame flowers gainst gaze gentle glad glorious glow godlike Gods golden grace hand happy hath heart Heaven holy Ibycus immortal joyous JUNO kiss Laura life's light lov'd love's lyre Maiden mighty mortal Muses Nature's ne'er Neath never night noble nought numbers o'er Orcus path plain poems rapture rays realms rosy ribbons round Schiller seek SEMELE sighs silent silv'ry smiling soft song soon sorrow soul spirit spring stand stone unite stream Styx sweet swell tears thee thine thou art thou hast thou'rt throne tow'rd truth twas veil vex'd waves wild wilt Wouldst thou yonder youth Zeus
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Page 173 - TAKE the world ! " Zeus exclaim'd from his throne in the skies To the children of man — " take the world I now give; It shall ever remain as your heirloom and prize, So divide it as brothers, and happily live.
Page 197 - What thro' deficient strength escapes ; The thoughtless man we must despise, Who disregards the thing he shapes. This forms a man's chief attribute, And Reason is to him assign'd, That what his hand may execute, Within his heart, too, he should find. Heap ye up the pinewood first, Yet full dry it needs must be, That the smother'd flame may burst Fiercely through the cavity ! Let the copper brew ! Quick the tin add too, That the tough bell-metal may Fuse there in the proper...
Page 199 - ... prove, That radiant time of early love! Dusky-hued becomes each pipe ! Let me plunge this rod in here : All for casting will be ripe When we see it glaz'd appear. Comrades, stand ye by ! Now the mixture try, If the brittle will combine With the soft — propitious sign ! For there is heard a joyous sound Where sternness is with softness bound, Where joins the gentle with the strong Who binds himself for ever, he Should prove if heart and heart agree ! The dream is short, repentance long. Through...
Page 240 - Threefold is the form of SPACE : Length, with ever restless motion, Seeks eternity's wide ocean; Breadth with boundless sway extends ; Depth to unknown realms descends. All as types to thee are given : Thou must onward strive for heaven, Never still or weary be Wouldst thou perfect glory see ; Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know ; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is.
Page 174 - Zeus exclaim'd,-^-" for the world has been given ; The harvest, the market, the chase, are not free ; But if thou with me wilt abide in my heaven, Whenever thou com'st, 'twill be open to thee !
Page 240 - Threefold is the form of space: Length, with ever restless motion, Seeks eternity's wide ocean; Breadth with boundless sway extends; Depth to unknown realms descends. All as types to thee are given; Thou must onward strive for heaven, Never still or weary be Would'st thou perfect glory see; Far must thy researches go. Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is. Naught but firmness gains the prize, — Naught but fulness makes us wise, —...
Page 199 - The room is enlarged, and his house grows apace; And o'er it is ruling The housewife so modest, His children's dear mother: And wisely she governs The circle of home. The maidens she trains, And the boys she restrains, Keeps plying for ever Her hands that flag never, And wealth helps to raise With her orderly ways, The sweet-scented presses with treasures piles high, Bids the thread round the...
Page 174 - mongst them all, be forgotten alone ? " Thus loudly he cried in his anguish, and threw Himself in despair before Jupiter's throne. " If thou in the region of dreams didst delay, Complain not of me," the Immortal replied ; "When the world was apportioned, where then wert thou, pray ? "
Page 45 - Sense of wrongs forget to treasure — Brethren, live in perfect love! In the starry realms above, God will mete as we may measure. Joy within the goblet flushes, For the golden nectar, wine, Ev'ry fierce emotion hushes, — Fills the breast with fire divine.