Book: Poems Of The Third Period

• The Meeting

  I see her still--by her fair train surrounded,
  The fairest of them all, she took her place;

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• The Secret

  She sought to breathe one word, but vainly;
  Too many listeners were nigh;

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• The Assignation

  Hear I the creaking gate unclose?
  The gleaming latch uplifted?

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• Longing

  Could I from this valley drear,
  Where the mist hangs heavily,

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• Evening

  Oh! thou bright-beaming god, the plains are thirsting,
  Thirsting for freshening dew, and man is pining;

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• The Pilgrim

  Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing
  Went I forth the world to roam--

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• The Ideals

  And wilt thou, faithless one, then, leave me,
  With all thy magic phantasy,--

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• The Youth By The Brook

  Beside the brook the boy reclined
  And wove his flowery wreath,

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• To Emma

  Far away, where darkness reigneth,
  All my dreams of bliss are flown;

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• The Favor Of The Moment

  Once more, then, we meet
  In the circles of yore;

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• The Lay Of The Mountain

  To the solemn abyss leads the terrible path,
  The life and death winding dizzy between;

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• The Alpine Hunter

  Wilt thou not the lambkins guard?
  Oh, how soft and meek they look,

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• Dithyramb

  Believe me, together
  The bright gods come ever,

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• The Four Ages Of The World

  The goblet is sparkling with purpled-tinged wine,
  Bright glistens the eye of each guest,

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• The Maiden's Lament

  The clouds fast gather,
  The forest-oaks roar--

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• To My Friends

  Yes, my friends!--that happier times have been
  Than the present, none can contravene;

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• Punch Song

  Four elements, joined in
    Harmonious strife,

  28 lines, 2 comments
• Nadowessian Death-Lament

  See, he sitteth on his mat
  Sitteth there upright,

  48 lines
• Feast Of Victory

  Priam's castle-walls had sunk,
  Troy in dust and ashes lay,

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• Punch Song (To be sung in the Northern Countries)

  On the mountain's breezy summit,
  Where the southern sunbeams shine,

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• The Complaint Of Ceres

  Does pleasant spring return once more?

  132 lines, 2 comments
• The Eleusinian Festival

  Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear!

  216 lines
• The Ring Of Polycrates - A Ballad

  Upon his battlements he stood,
  And downward gazed in joyous mood,

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• The Cranes Of Ibycus

  Once to the song and chariot-fight,
  Where all the tribes of Greece unite

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• The Playing Infant

  Play on thy mother's bosom, babe, for in that holy isle
  The error cannot find thee yet, the grieving, nor the guile;

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• Hero And Leander

  See you the towers, that, gray and old,
  Frown through the sunlight's liquid gold,

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• Cassandra

  Mirth the halls of Troy was filling,
  Ere its lofty ramparts fell;

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• The Hostage

  The tyrant Dionys to seek,
  Stern Moerus with his poniard crept;

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• Greekism

  Scarce has the fever so chilly of Gallomania departed,
  When a more burning attack in Grecomania breaks out.

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• The Driver

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• The Knight Of Toggenburg

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• The Fight With The Dragon

  Why run the crowd? What means the throng
  That rushes fast the streets along?

  300 lines, 1 comment
• Female Judgment

  Man frames his judgment on reason; but woman on love founds her verdict;
  If her judgment loves not, woman already has judged.

  2 lines, 2 comments
• Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory)

  A gentle was Fridolin,
  And he his mistress dear,

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• The Genius With The Inverted Torch

  Lovely he looks, 'tis true, with the light of his torch now extinguished;
  But remember that death is not aesthetic, my friends!

  2 lines, 2 comments
• The Count Of Hapsburg

  At Aix-la-Chapelle, in imperial array,
  In its halls renowned in old story,

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• The Forum Of Woman

  Woman, never judge man by his individual actions;
  But upon man as a whole, pass thy decisive decree.

  2 lines, 1 comment
• The Glove - A Tale

  Before his lion-court,
  Impatient for the sport,

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• The Circle Of Nature

  All, thou gentle one, lies embraced in thy kingdom; the graybeard
  Back to the days of his youth, childish and child-like, returns.

  2 lines, 1 comment
• The Veiled Statue At Sais

  A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge
  To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,

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• The Division Of The Earth

  "Take the world!" Zeus exclaimed from his throne in the skies
  To the children of man—"take the world I now give;

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• The Fairest Apparition

  If thou never hast gazed upon beauty in moments of sorrow,
  Thou canst with truth never boast that thou true beauty hast seen.

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• The Ideal And The Actual Life

  Forever fair, forever calm and bright,
  Life flies on plumage, zephyr-light,

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• Germany And Her Princes

  Thou hast produced mighty monarchs, of whom thou art not unworthy,
  For the obedient alone make him who governs them great.

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• Dangerous Consequences

  Deeper and bolder truths be careful, my friends, of avowing;
  For as soon as ye do all the world on ye will fall.

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• The Maiden From Afar

  Within a vale, each infant year,
  When earliest larks first carol free,

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• The Honorable

  Ever honor the whole; individuals only I honor;
  In individuals I always discover the whole.

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• Parables And Riddles

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  A bridge of pearls its form uprears

  182 lines, 1 comment
• The Virtue Of Woman

  Man of virtue has need;-into life with boldness he plunges,
  Entering with fortune more sure into the hazardous strife;

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• The Walk

  Hail to thee, mountain beloved, with thy glittering purple-dyed summit!
  Hail to thee also, fair sun, looking so lovingly on!

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• The Lay Of The Bell

  Fast, in its prison-walls of earth,
  Awaits the mould of baked clay.

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• The Power Of Song

  The foaming stream from out the rock
  With thunder roar begins to rush,--

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• To Proselytizers

  "Give me only a fragment of earth beyond the earth's limits,"--
  So the godlike man said,--"and I will move it with ease."

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• Honor To Woman

  Honor to woman! To her it is given
  To garden the earth with the roses of heaven!

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• Hope

  We speak with the lip, and we dream in the soul,
  Of some better and fairer day;

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• The German Art

  By no kind Augustus reared,
  To no Medici endeared,

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• Odysseus

  Seeking to find his home, Odysseus crosses each water;
  Through Charybdis so dread; ay, and through Scylla's wild yells,

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• Carthage

  Oh thou degenerate child of the great and glorious mother,
  Who with the Romans' strong might couplest the Tyrians' deceit!

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• The Sower

  Sure of the spring that warms them into birth,
  The golden seeds thou trustest to the earth;

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• The Knights Of St. John

  Oh, nobly shone the fearful cross upon your mail afar,
  When Rhodes and Acre hailed your might, O lions of the war!

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• The Merchant

  Where sails the ship?--It leads the Tyrian forth
  For the rich amber of the liberal north.

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• German Faith

  Once for the sceptre of Germany, fought with Bavarian Louis
  Frederick, of Hapsburg descent, both being called to the throne.

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• The Sexes

  See in the babe two loveliest flowers united--yet in truth,
  While in the bud they seem the same--the virgin and the youth!

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• Love And Desire

  Rightly said, Schlosser! Man loves what he has; what he has not, desireth;
  None but the wealthy minds love; poor minds desire alone.

  2 lines, 1 comment
• The Bards Of Olden Time

  Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers
  Who, with the accents of life, listening nations enthralled,

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• Jove To Hercules

  'Twas not my nectar made thy strength divine,
  But 'twas thy strength which made my nectar thine!

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• The Antiques At Paris

  That which Grecian art created,
  Let the Frank, with joy elated,

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• Thekla - A Spirit Voice

  Whither was it that my spirit wended
  When from thee my fleeting shadow moved?

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• The Antique To The Northern Wanderer

  Thou hast crossed over torrents, and swung through wide-spreading ocean,--
  Over the chain of the Alps dizzily bore thee the bridge,

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• The Iliad

  Tear forever the garland of Homer, and number the fathers
  Of the immortal work, that through all time will survive!

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• Pompeii And Herculaneum

  What wonder this?--we ask the lympid well,
  O earth! of thee--and from thy solemn womb

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• Naenia

  Even the beauteous must die! This vanquishes men and immortals;
  But of the Stygian god moves not the bosom of steel.

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• The Maid Of Orleans

  Humanity's bright image to impair.
  Scorn laid thee prostrate in the deepest dust;

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• Archimedes

  To Archimedes once a scholar came,
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• The Dance

  See how, like lightest waves at play, the airy dancers fleet;
  And scarcely feels the floor the wings of those harmonious feet.

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• The Fortune-Favored

  Ah! happy he, upon whose birth each god
  Looks down in love, whose earliest sleep the bright

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• Genius

  "Do I believe," sayest thou, "what the masters of wisdom would teach me,
  And what their followers' band boldly and readily swear?

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• Honors

  When the column of light on the waters is glassed,
  As blent in one glow seem the shine and the stream;

  6 lines, 1 comment
• The Philosophical Egotist

  Hast thou the infant seen that yet, unknowing of the love
  Which warms and cradles, calmly sleeps the mother's heart above--

  14 lines, 1 comment
• The Best State Constitution

  I can recognize only as such, the one that enables
  Each to think what is right,--but that he thinks so, cares not.

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• The Words Of Belief

  Three words will I name thee--around and about,
  From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;

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• The Words Of Error

  Three errors there are, that forever are found
  On the lips of the good, on the lips of the best;

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• The Power Of Woman

  Mighty art thou, because of the peaceful charms of thy presence;
  That which the silent does not, never the boastful can do.

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• The Two Paths Of Virtue

  Two are the pathways by which mankind can to virtue mount upward;
  If thou should find the one barred, open the other will lie.

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• The Proverbs Of Confucius

  Threefold is the march of time

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• Human Knowledge

  Since thou readest in her what thou thyself hast there written,
  And, to gladden the eye, placest her wonders in groups;--

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• Columbus

  Steer on, bold sailor--Wit may mock thy soul that sees the land,
  And hopeless at the helm may droop the weak and weary hand,

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• Light And Warmth

  In cheerful faith that fears no ill
  The good man doth the world begin;

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Breadth And Depth

  Full many a shining wit one sees,
  With tongue on all things well conversing;

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• The Two Guides Of Life - The Sublime And The Beautiful

  Two genii are there, from thy birth through weary life to guide thee;
  Ah, happy when, united both, they stand to aid beside thee?

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• The Observer

  Stern as my conscience, thou seest the points wherein I'm deficient;
  Therefore I've always loved thee, as my own conscience I've loved.

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• Wisdom And Prudence

  Wouldst thou, my friend, mount up to the highest summit of wisdom,
  Be not deterred by the fear, prudence thy course may deride

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• The Agreement

  Both of us seek for truth--in the world without thou dost seek it,
  I in the bosom within; both of us therefore succeed.

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• Political Precept

  All that thou doest is right; but, friend, don't carry this precept
  On too far,--be content, all that is right to effect.

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• Majestas Populi

  Majesty of the nature of man! In crowds shall I seek thee?
  'Tis with only a few that thou hast made thine abode.

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• The Difficult Union

  Why are taste and genius so seldom met with united?
  Taste of strength is afraid,--genius despises the rein.

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• To A World-Reformer

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• My Antipathy

  I have a heartfelt aversion for crime,--a twofold aversion,
  Since 'tis the reason why man prates about virtue so much.

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• Astronomical Writings

  Oh, how infinite, how unspeakably great, are the heavens!
  Yet by frivolity's hand downwards the heavens are pulled!

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• The Best State

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• To Astronomers

  Prate not to me so much of suns and of nebulous bodies;
  Think ye Nature but great, in that she gives thee to count?

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• My Faith

  Which religion do I acknowledge? None that thou namest.
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• Inside And Outside

  God alone sees the heart and therefore, since he alone sees it,
  Be it our care that we, too, something that's worthy may see.

  2 lines, 1 comment
• Friend And Foe

  Dearly I love a friend; yet a foe I may turn to my profit;
  Friends show me that which I can; foes teach me that which I should.

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• Beauteous Individuality

  Thou in truth shouldst be one, yet not with the whole shouldst thou be so.
  'Tis through the reason thou'rt one,--art so with it through the heart.

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• Variety

  Many are good and wise; yet all for one only reckon,
  For 'tis conception, alas, rules them, and not a fond heart.

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• The Imitator

  Good from the good,--to the reason this is not hard of conception;
  But the genius has power good from the bad to evoke.

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Geniality

  How does the genius make itself known? In the way that in nature
  Shows the Creator himself,--e'en in the infinite whole.

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Shakespeare's Ghost - A Parody

  I, too, at length discerned great Hercules' energy mighty,--
  Saw his shade. He himself was not, alas, to be seen.

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• The Poetry Of Life

  Who would himself with shadows entertain,
  Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,

  34 lines

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