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POEMS OF THE THIRD PERIOD
By Frederich Schiller
CONTENTS:
The Meeting
The Secret
The Assignation
Longing
Evening
(After a Picture)
The Pilgrim
The Ideals
The Youth by the Brook

To Emma
The Favor of the Moment
The Lay of the Mountain

The Alpine Hunter
Dithyramb
The Four Ages of the World
The
Maiden's Lament
To My Friends
Punch Song
Nadowessian Death
Lament
The Feast of Victory
Punch Song
The Complaint of
Ceres
The Eleusinian Festival
The Ring of Polycrates
The Cranes
of Ibycus (A Ballad)
The Playing Infant
Hero and Leander (A
Ballad)
Cassandra
The Hostage (A Ballad)
Greekism
The Diver
(A Ballad)
The Fight with the Dragon
Female Judgment
Fridolin;
or, the Walk to the Iron Foundry
The Genius with the Inverted Torch

The Count of Hapsburg (A Ballad)
The Forum of Women
The
Glove (A Tale)
The Circle of Nature
The Veiled Statue at Sais

The Division of the Earth
The Fairest Apparition
The Ideal and the
Actual Life
Germany and her Princes

Dangerous Consequences

The Maiden from Afar
The Honorable
Parables and Riddles
The
Virtue of Woman
The Walk
The Lay of the Bell
The Power of
Song
To Proselytizers
Honor to Woman
Hope
The German Art

Odysseus
Carthage
The Sower
The Knights of St. John
The
Merchant
German Faith
The Sexes
Love and Desire
The Bards
of Olden Time
Jove to Hercules
The Antiques of Paris
Thekla (A
Spirit Voice)
The Antique to the Northern Wanderer
The Iliad

Pompeii and Herculaneum
Naenia
The Maid of Orleans

Archimedes
The Dance
The Fortune-Favored
Bookseller's
Announcement
Genius
Honors
The Philosophical Egotist
The

Best State Constitution
The Words of Belief
The Words of Error

The Power of Woman
The Two Paths of Virtue
The Proverbs of
Confucius
Human Knowledge
Columbus
Light and Warmth

Breadth and Depth
The Two Guides of Life
The Immutable
VOTIVE TABLETS
Different Destinies
The Animating Principle
Two Descriptions of
Action
Difference of Station
Worth and the Worthy
The Moral
Force
Participation
To----
The Present Generation
To the Muse

The Learned Workman
The Duty of All
A Problem
The
Peculiar Ideal
To Mystics
The Key
The Observer
Wisdom and
Prudence
The Agreement
Political Precept
Majestas Populi
The
Difficult Union
To a World-Reformer
My Antipathy

Astronomical Writings
The Best State
To Astronomers
My Faith

Inside and Outside
Friend and Foe
Light and Color
Genius

Beauteous Individuality
Variety
The imitator

Geniality
The
Inquirers
Correctness
The Three Ages of Nature
The Law of
Nature
Choice
Science of Music
To the Poet
Language
The
Master
The Girdle
The Dilettante
The Babbler of Art
The
Philosophies
The Favor of the Muses
Homer's Head as a Seal
Goodness and Greatness
The Impulses
Naturalists and
Transcendental Philosophers
German Genius
Theophania
TRIFLES
The Epic Hexameter
The Distich
The Eight-line Stanza
The
Obelisk
The Triumphal Arch
The Beautiful Bridge
The Gate
St.
Peter's
The Philosophers
The Homerides
G. G.
The Moral Poet
The
Danaides
The Sublime Subject
The Artifice
Immortality

Jeremiads
Shakespeare's Ghost
The Rivers
Zenith and Nadir


Kant and his Commentators
The Philosophers
The Metaphysician

Pegasus in harness
Knowledge
The Poetry of Life
To Goethe

The Present
Departure from Life
Verses written in the Album of a
Learned Friend
Verses written in the Album of a Friend
The
Sunday Children
The Highest
The Puppet-show of Life
To
Lawgivers
False Impulse to Study
To the Prince of Weimar
The
Ideal of Woman (To Amanda)
The Fountain of Second Youth

William Tell
To a Young Friend Devoting Himself to Philosophy

Expectation and Fulfilment
The Common Fate
Human Action

Nuptial Ode
The Commencement of the New Century
Grecian
Genius
The Father
The Connecting Medium
The Moment

German Comedy
Farewell to the Reader
Dedications to Death
Preface
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;
Afar I stood, by her bright charms confounded,
For,
oh! they dazzled with their heavenly grace.
With awe my soul was
filled--with bliss unbounded,
While gazing on her softly radiant face;

But soon, as if up-borne on wings of fire,
My fingers 'gan to sweep
the sounding lyre.
The thoughts that rushed across me in that hour,
The words I sang, I'd
fain once more invoke;
Within, I felt a new-awakened power,

That
each emotion of my bosom spoke.
My soul, long time enchained in
sloth's dull bower,
Through all its fetters now triumphant broke,

And brought to light unknown, harmonious numbers,
Which in its
deepest depths, had lived in slumbers.
And when the chords had ceased their gentle sighing,
And when my
soul rejoined its mortal frame,
I looked upon her face and saw love

vieing,
In every feature, with her maiden shame.
And soon my
ravished heart seemed heavenward flying,
When her soft whisper o'er
my senses came.
The blissful seraphs' choral strains alone
Can glad
mine ear again