SCHILLER'S POEMS     

   

       Poems of the First Period     

   

       By Friedrich Schiller     

     

     

   

  POEMS OF THE FIRST PERIOD.  

  FOOTNOTES  

  

       POEMS OF THE FIRST PERIOD     

    Hector and Andromache Amalia A Funeral Fantasie Fantasie—To Laura To Laura at the Harpsichord Group from Tartarus Rapture—To Laura To Laura (The Mystery of Reminiscence)    Melancholy—To Laura The Infanticide The Greatness of the World Fortune and Wisdom Elegy on the Death of a Young Man The Battle Rousseau Friendship Elysium The Fugitive To Minna The Flowers The Triumph of Love (A Hymn)    To a Moralist Count Eberhard, the Groaner of Wurtemburg To the Spring Semele 

  

       POEMS OF THE FIRST PERIOD.     

           HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.     [This and the following poem are, with some alterations, introduced in the Play of "The Robbers."]     ANDROMACHE. Will Hector leave me for the fatal plain, Where, fierce with vengeance for Patroclus slain, Stalks Peleus' ruthless son? Who, when thou glid'st amid the dark abodes, To hurl the spear and to revere the gods, Shall teach thine orphan one? HECTOR. Woman and wife beloved—cease thy tears; My soul is nerved—the war-clang in my ears! Be mine in life to stand 

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