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Title: Poems of The Third Period
Author: Frederich Schiller
Release Date: Oct, 2004 [EBook #6796]?[Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule]?[This file was first posted on January 31, 2003]
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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 with that sweet tone,
Of that fond heart, which, pining silently,?Ne'er ventures to express its feelings lowly,?The real and modest worth is known to me--?'Gainst cruel fate I'll