Selections from Schiller's Lyrical PoemsMacmillan, 1886 - 203 pages |
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Æsch Agam Agamemnon allusion Amasis Amathus amid Andromache Assistant-Master Atreus Atrid Bacchus battle bell Blick Book called Ceres child comrade Corinth Cranes of Ibycus daughter dead death earth Edited Erde ewig faith Faust feeling Fleiß Geiſt genius gives gods Goethe Goethe's golden Gott grave great Greek Hand happy heart heaven Hector heil'gen heiß Herz high Himmel Hoch home ist's Jüngling King of Egypt land last Leben left life life's Line love made make Matthew Arnold may compare Menschen mountain Mund muß never once Oread poem poet Polycrates readers referred return Rhegium Roß Samos Scene Schiller Schiller's school ſein sense ships ſich ſie Skamanders slay song soul spake spirit stanza stream taken Telamon Tennyson's thee things thou thought time truth unto used Virg Wallenstein wife wild Wilhelm Tell WINCHESTER COLLEGE word work world years youth Zeus ΙΟ
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Page 128 - Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Page 181 - Thin, thin the pleasant human noises grow, And faint the city gleams; Rare the lone pastoral huts — marvel not thou! The solemn peaks but to the stars are known, But to the stars, and the cold lunar beams; Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams.
Page 140 - He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, Who dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.
Page 132 - I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use ! As tho
Page 161 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 172 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark! what discord follows; each thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe...
Page 127 - Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an Angel's wings, Conquer all mysteries by rule and line, Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine — Unweave a rainbow, as it erewhile made The tender-person'd Lamia melt into a shade.
Page 164 - Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling, At their return, up the high strand, Begin, and cease, and then again begin, With tremulous cadence slow, and bring The eternal note of sadness in.
Page 199 - Peace, peace ! he is not dead, he doth not sleep ! He hath awakened from the dream of life. 'Tis we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance strike with our spirit's knife Invulnerable nothings.
Page 137 - He saw thro' life and death, thro' good and ill, He saw thro' his own soul. The marvel of the everlasting will, An open scroll, Before him lay...