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Subject: SCHILLER, JOHANN VON (1759-1805)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` EPILOGUE TO SCHILLER'S 'SONG OF THE BELL', by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so it is proved! The nation felt, ere long
Last Line: Combining, with his own, eternal light.
Subject(s): Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


LINES ON SEEING SCHILLER'S SKULL, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within a gloomy charnel-house one day
Last Line: How steadfast, too, the spirit-born remain.
Subject(s): Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


PROLOGUE TO THE TRAGEDY OF FIESCO BY SCHILLER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Too long apart, a bright but severed band
Last Line: "where once that harp ""the soul of music shed!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


SCHILLER, by CALVIN THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: He kept the faith. The ardent poet-soul
Last Line: Where truth and beauty chime with blended ray.
Subject(s): Freedom; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Liberty; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


SCHILLER'S BURIAL, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Two dim and paltry torches that the raging storm
Last Line: "followed this coffin. ""twas the spirit of mankind."
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


SCHILLER'S DYING VISION, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the light beyond draws nearer
Subject(s): Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805)


THE BUSTS OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER IN WALHALLA, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This is goethe, with a forehead
Last Line: And the poet is the king!
Subject(s): Death; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Dead, The; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


THE DEATH OF SCHILLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said, when schiller's death drew nigh
Last Line: Sprang to a fairer, ampler sphere.
Subject(s): Immortality; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


TO THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ROBBERS' (SCHILLER), by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Schiller! That hour I would have wished to die
Last Line: Then weep aloud in a wild ecstasy!
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Author Of The Robbers
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von