Friedrich von Schiller's Poetry, by title

• A Funeral Fantasie

  Pale, at its ghastly noon,
  Pauses above the death-still wood--the moon;

  80 lines
• A Peculiar Ideal

  What thou thinkest, belongs to all; what thou feelest, is thine only.
  Wouldst thou make him thine own, feel thou the God whom thou thinkest!

  2 lines
• A Problem

  Let none resemble another; let each resemble the highest!
  How can that happen? let each be all complete in itself.

  2 lines
• Amalia

  Angel-fair, Walhalla's charms displaying,
  Fairer than all mortal youths was he;

  16 lines
• Archimedes

  To Archimedes once a scholar came,
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  14 lines
• Astronomical Writings

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

  2 lines
• 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
• Breadth And Depth

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

  18 lines
• Carthage

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

  6 lines
• Cassandra

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

  128 lines
• 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,

  8 lines
• Count Eberhard, The Groaner Of Wurtembert. A War Song

  Now hearken, ye who take delight
  In boasting of your worth!

  80 lines
• 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.

  2 lines
• Difference Of Station

  Even the moral world its nobility boasts--vulgar natures
  Reckon by that which they do; noble, by that which they are.

  2 lines
• Different Destinies

  Millions busily toil, that the human race may continue;
  But by only a few is propagated our kind.

  6 lines
• Dithyramb

  Believe me, together
  The bright gods come ever,

  29 lines
• Elegy On The Death Of A Young Man

  Mournful groans, as when a tempest lowers,

  108 lines
• Elysium

  Past the despairing wail--
  And the bright banquets of the Elysian vale

  35 lines
• Evening

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

  16 lines
• Fantasie -- To Laura

  Name, my Laura, name the whirl-compelling
  Bodies to unite in one blest whole--

  68 lines
• Feast Of Victory

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

  156 lines
• 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
• Fortune And Wisdom

  Enraged against a quondam friend,
  To Wisdom once proud Fortune said

  16 lines
• Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory)

  A gentle was Fridolin,
  And he his mistress dear,

  240 lines
• 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
• Friendship

  Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content,
  Needs not the laws it has laborious been

  60 lines
• 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
• Genius

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

  55 lines
• German Faith

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

  16 lines
• 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.

  4 lines

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