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Friedrich von Schiller's Poetry, by first line

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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?
    5 lines, 1 comment
  • My Faith
    Which religion do I acknowledge? None that thou namest.
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    2 lines
  • 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.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • 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.
    4 lines
  • Variety
    Many are good and wise; yet all for one only reckon,
    For 'tis conception, alas, rules them, and not a fond heart.
    6 lines
  • 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.
    48 lines
  • Greekism
    Scarce has the fever so chilly of Gallomania departed,
    When a more burning attack in Grecomania breaks out.
    6 lines
  • The Driver
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    162 lines
  • The Eleusinian Festival
    Wreathe in a garland the corn's golden ear!
    216 lines
  • 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
  • To A Moralist
    Are the sports of our youth so displeasing?
    Is love but the folly you say?
    24 lines
  • The Triumph Of Love
    By love are blest the gods on high,
    Frail man becomes a deity
    177 lines
  • The Flowers
    Ye offspring of the morning sun,
    Ye flowers that deck the smiling plain,
    30 lines
  • To Minna
    Do I dream? can I trust to my eye?
    My sight sure some vapor must cover?
    48 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
  • Elysium
    Past the despairing wail--
    And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale
    35 lines
  • Friendship
    Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content,
    Needs not the laws it has laborious been
    60 lines
  • Rousseau
    Monument of our own age's shame,
    On thy country casting endless blame,
    12 lines
  • Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man
    Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers,
    108 lines
  • The Complaint Of Ceres
    Does pleasant spring return once more?
    132 lines, 2 comments
  • Punch Song (To be sung in the Northern Countries)
    On the mountain's breezy summit,
    Where the southern sunbeams shine,
    48 lines
  • The Celebrated Woman - An Epistle By A Married Man
    Can I, my friend, with thee condole?--
    Can I conceive the woes that try men,
    222 lines
  • Written In A Young Lady's Album
    Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed,
    Radiant with sportive grace, around thee plays;
    26 lines
  • The Assignation
    Hear I the creaking gate unclose?
    The gleaming latch uplifted?
    64 lines
  • Longing
    Could I from this valley drear,
    Where the mist hangs heavily,
    32 lines
  • The Pilgrim
    Youth's gay springtime scarcely knowing
    Went I forth the world to roam--
    36 lines
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