Friedrich Schiller Poems

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61.
A Peculiar Ideal

62.
The Proverbs Of Confucius

Threefold is the march of time
While the future slow advances,
Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime.
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63.
Jove To Hercules

'Twas not my nectar made thy strength divine,
But 'twas thy strength which made my nectar thine!
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64.
The Poetry Of Life

"Who would himself with shadows entertain,
Or gild his life with lights that shine in vain,
Or nurse false hopes that do but cheat the true?--
Though with my dream my heaven should be resigned--
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65.
Fridolin (The Walk To The Iron Factory)

A gentle was Fridolin,
And he his mistress dear,
Savern's fair Countess, honored in
All truth and godly fear.
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66.
A Problem

67.
The Youth By The Brook

Beside the brook the boy reclined
And wove his flowery wreath,
And to the waves the wreath consigned--
The waves that danced beneath.
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68.
Two Descriptions Of Action

69.
The Words Of Belief

Three words will I name thee--around and about,
From the lip to the lip, full of meaning, they flee;
But they had not their birth in the being without,
And the heart, not the lip, must their oracle be!
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70.
Light And Warmth

In cheerful faith that fears no ill
The good man doth the world begin;
And dreams that all without shall still
Reflect the trusting soul within.
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