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Book: Poems Of The First Period

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  • To The Spring
    Welcome, gentle Stripling,
    Nature's darling thou!
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Count Eberhard, The Groaner Of Wurtembert. A War Song
    Now hearken, ye who take delight
    In boasting of your worth!
    80 lines
  • Rapture -- To Laura
    From earth I seem to wing my flight,
    And sun myself in Heaven's pure light,
    24 lines
  • To A Moralist
    Are the sports of our youth so displeasing?
    Is love but the folly you say?
    24 lines
  • The Greatness Of The World
    Through the world which the Spirit creative and kind
    First formed out of chaos, I fly like the wind,
    29 lines
  • The Triumph Of Love
    By love are blest the gods on high,
    Frail man becomes a deity
    177 lines
  • A Funeral Fantasie
    Pale, at its ghastly noon,
    Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon;
    80 lines
  • The Flowers
    Ye offspring of the morning sun,
    Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,
    30 lines
  • Melancholy -- To Laura
    Laura! a sunrise seems to break
    Where'er thy happy looks may glow.
    139 lines
  • To Minna
    Do I dream? can I trust to my eye?
    My sight sure some vapor must cover?
    48 lines
  • To Laura At The Harpsichord
    When o'er the chords thy fingers stray,
    My spirit leaves its mortal clay,
    40 lines
  • The Fugitive
    The air is perfumed with the morning's fresh breeze,
    From the bush peer the sunbeams all purple and bright,
    42 lines
  • Fortune And Wisdom
    Enraged against a quondam friend,
    To Wisdom once proud Fortune said
    16 lines
  • Elysium
    Past the despairing wail--
    And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale
    35 lines
  • The Infanticide
    Hark where the bells toll, chiming, dull and steady,
    The clock's slow hand hath reached the appointed time.
    120 lines
  • Friendship
    Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content,
    Needs not the laws it has laborious been
    60 lines
  • To Laura (Mystery Of Reminiscence)
    Who and what gave to me the wish to woo thee--
    Still, lip to lip, to cling for aye unto thee?
    60 lines
  • Rousseau
    Monument of our own age's shame,
    On thy country casting endless blame,
    12 lines
  • Group From Tartarus
    Hark! like the sea in wrath the heavens assailing,
    Or like a brook through rocky basin wailing,
    14 lines
  • The Battle
    Heavy and solemn,
    A cloudy column,
    75 lines, 1 comment
  • Fantasie -- To Laura
    Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling
    Bodies to unite in one blest whole--
    68 lines
  • Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man
    Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers,
    108 lines
  • Amalia
    Angel-fair, Walhalla's charms displaying,
    Fairer than all mortal youths was he;
    16 lines
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