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ALTMAYER ANAXAGORAS ancient art thou bear Beauty behold blessing bliss bosom BRANDER breast canst cheer CHIRON CHORUS comes crowd Dæmon dance dare delight Devil doth dream drink earth EMPEROR eternal EUPHORION Eurotas evil eyes fain fair fairest FAUST fear feel fire flame fool FROSCH give glow Goethe gold grace hand hast thou hath HAVEQUICK hear heart Heaven HELENA HERALD hither HOMUNCULUS honor hover land LEMURES light lofty look Lord LORD HIGH STEWARD LYNCEUS MARGARET MARTHA Menelaus MEPHISTOPHELES mother naught ne'er NEREIDS NEREUS never night o'er once PENEUS PHORKYAS pleasure PLUTUS PROTEUS rapture rocks round seek SEMICHORUS shalt shining SIEBEL sing song soon soul SPHINX spirit stand sweet TELCHINES THALES thee there's thine things thou art thou hast throne thyself to-day treasure unto WAGNER wander WILL-O'-THE-WISP wilt WITCH word yonder youth
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Page 39 - One impulse art thou conscious of, at best; O, never seek to know the other! Two souls, alas! reside within my breast, And each withdraws from, and repels, its brother. One with tenacious organs holds in love And clinging lust the world in its embraces; The other strongly sweeps, this dust above, Into the high ancestral spaces.
Page 237 - The sphere of Earth is known enough to me; The view beyond is barred immutably: A fool, who there his blinking eyes directeth And o'er his clouds of peers a place expecteth ! Firm let him stand, and look around him well. This World means something to the Capable. Why needs he through Eternity to wend? He here acquires what he can apprehend.
Page 241 - Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true : He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew. Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide away Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous day: And such a throng I fain would see,— Stand on free soil among a people free ! Then dared I hail the Moment fleeing: "Ah, still delay — thou art so fair!
Page 60 - t is not of joy we 're talking. I take the wildering whirl, enjoyment's keenest pain, Enamored hate, exhilarant disdain. My bosom, of its thirst for knowledge sated, Shall not, henceforth, from any pang be wrested, And all of life for all mankind created • Shall be within mine inmost being tested : The highest, lowest forms my soul shall borrow, Shall heap upon itself their bliss and sorrow, And thus, my own sole self to all their selves expanded, I too, at last, shall with them all be stranded...
Page 132 - The All-enfolding, The All-upholding, Folds and upholds he not Thee, me, Himself? Arches not there the sky above us? Lies not beneath us, firm, the earth ? And rise not, on us shining, Friendly, the everlasting stars? Look...
Page 238 - Word alone bestows the might. Up from your couches, vassals, man by man ! Make grandly visible my daring plan ! Seize now your tools, with spade and shovel press ! The work traced out must be a swift success.
Page 242 - MEPHISTOPHELES No joy could sate him, and suffice no bliss! To catch but shifting shapes was his endeavor: The latest, poorest, emptiest Moment — this, — He wished to hold it fast forever. Me he resisted in such vigorous wise, But Time is lord, on earth the old man lies. The clock stands still — CHORUS Stands still! silent as midnight, now! The index falls. MEPHISTOPHELES It falls; and it is finished, here! CHORUS "Tis past!
Page 129 - My peace is gone, My heart is sore : I never shall find it, Ah, nevermore ! To see him, him only, At the pane I sit; To meet him, him only, The house I quit.
Page 63 - Fate such a bold, untrammelled spirit gave him, As forwards, onwards, ever must endure ; Whose over-hasty impulse drave him Past earthly joys he might secure. Dragged through the wildest life, will I enslave him, Through flat and stale indifference ; With struggling, chilling, checking, so deprave him That, to his hot, insatiate sense, The dream of drink shall mock, but never lave him : Refreshment shall his lips in vain implore — Had he not made himself the Devil's, naught could save him, Still...
Page 10 - ... surging From sea to land, from land to sea. A chain of deepest action forging Round all, in wrathful energy. There flames a desolation, blazing Before the Thunder's crashing way : Yet, Lord, Thy messengers are praising The gentle movement of Thy Day. THE THREE. Though still by them uncomprehended, From these the angels draw their power, And all Thy works, sublime and splendid, Are bright as in Creation's hour.