The Poems and Ballads of Schiller, Volume 2Blackwood, 1844 - 284 pages |
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Page 74 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Page 173 - Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Page 3 - The youth gave his trust to his Maker ! Before That path through the riven abyss closed again — Hark! a shriek from the crowd rang aloft from the shore, And, behold ! he is whirled in the grasp of the main ! And o'er him the breakers mysteriously rolled, And the giant-mouth closed on the swimmer so bold.
Page 4 - Quick-brightening like lightning — it tore me along, Down, down, till the gush of a torrent at play, In the rocks of its wilderness caught me — and strong As the wings of an eagle, it whirled me away. Vain, vain were my struggles — the circle had won me, Round and round in its dance the wild element spun me.
Page 2 - And all as before heard in silence the king, Till a youth, with an aspect unfearing, but gentle, Mid the tremulous squires, stept out from the ring, Unbuckling his girdle, and doffing his mantle ; And the murmuring crowd, as they parted asunder, On the stately boy cast their looks of wonder.
Page 3 - And it bubbles and seethes, and it hisses and roars, As when fire is with water commixed and contending ; And the spray of its wrath to the welkin up-soars, And flood upon flood hurries on, never ending, And as with the swell of the far thunder-boom, Rushes roaringly forth from the heart of the gloom.
Page 148 - If like glass the wand be glimmering, Then the casting may begin. Brisk, brisk now, and see If the fusion flow free ; If — (happy and welcome indeed were the sign !) If the hard and the ductile united combine ; For still where the strong is betrothed to the weak, And the stern in sweet marriage is blent with the meek, Rings the concord harmonious, both tender and strong : So be it with thee, if for ever united, The heart to the heart flows in one, love-delighted ; Illusion is brief, but repentance...
Page 9 - Fair Cunigonde said , with a lip of scorn , To the knight DELORGES — "If the love you have sworn Were as gallant and leal as you boast it to be , I might ask you to bring back that glove to me ! " The knight left the place where the lady sate ; The knight he has pass'd thro...
Page 263 - Dark and more darkly day glooms into night. Brothers, God grant, when this life is o'er, In the life to come that we meet once...
Page 262 - And fettered they stand at the stark command, And the warriors, silent, halt. Proud in the blush of morning glowing, What on the hill-top shines in flowing? "See you the foeman's banners waving?