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 arms Ballad beauteous Beauty behold blest bliss bosom bound breast breath bright brow Ceres Charybdis Chimæra Count of Habsburg dance dark deep descending dost doth dread Earth Epigram Erwartung eternal fair Fate feeling fierce flood flowers Frederick graces Genius German glad glide glory glow Goddess Gods Goethe golden grace hand happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hoffmeister holy hope human Humboldt Ibycus Ideal immortal Isthmian games Jove Life's light lov'd Love LOVE possessed Love's Madame de Stael Man-the metre mighty mortal mountain Muse Nature Nature's ne'er never night nought o'er Ocean Orcus poem Poet Poet's poetical Poetry render round Savern Schiller sense sentiment She-the silent smiles soft song soul spirit stanza sweet swell swift tears thee thine thou thought thro throne thyself Toggenburg Truth vanish'd veil vex'd waves Whilst wild wouldst youth
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Page 368 - 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 395 - For fable is Love's world, his home, his birth-place: Delightedly dwells he 'mong fays and talismans, And spirits ; and delightedly believes Divinities, being himself divine.
Page 362 - 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 375 - 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 401 - 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 384 - 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 382 - The influence of the Philosophic Spirit, in humanizing the mind, and preparing it for intellectual exertion, and delicate pleasure ;— in exploring, by the help of geometry, the system of the universe *— in banishing superstition ;— In promoting navigation, agriculture, medicine, and moral and political science ;—from this Stana to the end of the first Stanza, Page 31. '
Page 363 - With men to whom no better law Nor better life was known ; Deliberately, and undeceived, Those wild men's vices he received, And gave them back his own. His genius and his moral frame Were thus impaired, and he became The slave of low desires : A man who without self-control Would seek what the degraded soul Unworthily admires.
Page 369 - O faithful Consort, to control Rebellious passion: for the Gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul; A fervent, not ungovernable, love.
Page 384 - One moment now may give us more Than years of toiling reason : Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season. Some silent laws our hearts will make, Which they shall long obey : We for the year to come may take Our temper from to-day. And from the blessed power that rolls About, below, above, We'll frame the measure of our souls : They shall be tuned to love.