Amalia

Friedrich Schiller 1759 (Marbach am Neckar) – 1805 (Weimar)



Angel-fair, Walhalla's charms displaying,
 Fairer than all mortal youths was he;
Mild his look, as May-day sunbeams straying
 Gently o'er the blue and glassy sea.

And his kisses!--what ecstatic feeling!
Like two flames that lovingly entwine,
Like the harp's soft tones together stealing
 Into one sweet harmony divine,--

Soul and soul embraced, commingled, blended,
 Lips and cheeks with trembling passion burned,
Heaven and earth, in pristine chaos ended,
 Round the blissful lovers madly turn'd.

He is gone--and, ah! with bitter anguish
 Vainly now I breathe my mournful sighs;
He is gone--in hopeless grief I languish
 Earthly joys I ne'er again can prize!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFG
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 652
Words 106
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet philosopher historian and playwright During the last seventeen years of his life Schiller struck up a productive if complicated friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang Goethe with whom he frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics and encouraged Goethe to finish works he left merely as sketches this relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism They also worked together on Die Xenien The Xenies a collection of short but harshly satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe verbally attacked those persons they perceived to be enemies of their aesthetic agenda. more…

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