The Poems and Ballads of Schiller, Volúmenes1-2

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William Blackwood and sons, 1844 - 374 páginas
 

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Página 175 - And ere a man hath power to say, 'behold,' The jaws of Darkness do devour it up, So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 5 - dragon — vast reptiles that dwell In the deep — coil'd about the grim jaws of their hell. " Dark-crawl'd — glided dark the unspeakable swarms, Clump'd together in masses, misshapen and vast — Here clung and here bristled the fashionless forms — Here the dark-moving bulk of the Hammer-fish pass'd — And with teeth grinning white, and a menacing motion, Went the terrible Shark — the
Página 9 - And the wild-cats on the spot, From the blood-thirst, wroth and hot, Halted still! Now from the balcony above, A snowy hand let fall a glove: — Midway between the beasts of prey, Lion and tiger; there it lay, The winsome lady's glove! Fair Cunigonde said, with a lip of scorn, To the knight
Página 188 - &c."] How God compassionates Mankind, thy muse, my friend, rehearses — Compassion for the sins of Man! — What comfort for thy verses! SCIENCE. To some she is the Goddess great, to some the milch-cow of the field; Their care is but to calculate — what butter she will yield.
Página 131 - Dignity of Women."] HONOUR to Woman! To her it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven! All blessed, she linketh the Loves in their choir • In the veil of the Graces her beauty concealing, She tends on each altar that's
Página 266 - on the dastards all, And their colours fall! Victory! Closed is the brunt of the glorious fight: And the day, like a conqueror, bursts on the night. Trumpet and fife swelling choral along, The triumph already sweeps marching in song. Farewell, fallen brothers, tho
Página 131 - to Feeling, And keeps ever-living the fire! From the bounds of Truth careering, Man's strong spirit wildly sweeps, With each hasty impulse veering, Down to Passion's troubled deeps. And his heart, contented never, Greeds to grapple with the Far, Chasing his own dream for ever,
Página 1 - Of the endless and measureless world of the deep, Swirl'd into the maelstrom that madden'd the surge, " And where is the diver so stout to go — I ask ye again — to the deep below?" And the knights and the squires that gather'd around, Stood silent — and
Página 156 - O daughter of the skies, Hail, holy ORDER, whose employ Blends like to like in light and joy • • • Builder of cities, who of old Call'd the wild man from waste and wold. And, in nis hut thy presence stealing, Roused each familiar household feeling; And, best of all the happy ties, The centre of the social band,
Página 187 - (TRANSLATED BY COLERIDGE.) STRONGLY it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows, Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. THE ELEGIAC

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