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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... sound ! All unconscious of the joys she renders , Of the spirit that rules her unaware , Heedless of her own surpassing splendours , Senseless to the bliss she bids me share ; E'en unmindful of her Maker's praise- Like the dead beat of ...
... sound ! All unconscious of the joys she renders , Of the spirit that rules her unaware , Heedless of her own surpassing splendours , Senseless to the bliss she bids me share ; E'en unmindful of her Maker's praise- Like the dead beat of ...
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... sound . How vast that world by Fancy moulded , Whilst lurking in the bud unseen ! How little when its flower unfolded ! — That little - ah ! how vile and mean ! 7 . [ As from its mountain - source slow welling , First , drop by drop ...
... sound . How vast that world by Fancy moulded , Whilst lurking in the bud unseen ! How little when its flower unfolded ! — That little - ah ! how vile and mean ! 7 . [ As from its mountain - source slow welling , First , drop by drop ...
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... sound proceeding . So stream the waves of Song , out - pouring Through fountains hid from man's exploring . Leagu'd with those awful powers that wind The thread of life - a silent band- Who can the minstrel's charm unbind ? His strains ...
... sound proceeding . So stream the waves of Song , out - pouring Through fountains hid from man's exploring . Leagu'd with those awful powers that wind The thread of life - a silent band- Who can the minstrel's charm unbind ? His strains ...
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... sound through the breeze - light through etherial space ; Seeks an infallible Law in the fearful changes of chance - in Fleeting Phenomena seeks after a pole that abides . Writing lends substance and voice to mute Thought , through the ...
... sound through the breeze - light through etherial space ; Seeks an infallible Law in the fearful changes of chance - in Fleeting Phenomena seeks after a pole that abides . Writing lends substance and voice to mute Thought , through the ...
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... sounds Of human labour , or of human joy . Am I indeed alone ? —in thine arms - to thy bosom , O Nature ! press'd once more ? —and was it only A dream , that on my shuddering fancy seiz'd , And bore me darkling down amidst the abyss ...
... sounds Of human labour , or of human joy . Am I indeed alone ? —in thine arms - to thy bosom , O Nature ! press'd once more ? —and was it only A dream , that on my shuddering fancy seiz'd , And bore me darkling down amidst the abyss ...
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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...