



Produced by Tapio Riikonen and David Widger





        SCHILLER'S POEMS

     By Frederich Shiller




       SUPPRESSED POEMS.



  CONTENTS:

     The Journalists and Minos
     Bacchus in the Pillory
     Spinosa
     To the Fates
     The Parallel
     Klopstock and Wieland
     The Muses' Revenge
     The Hypochondriacal Pluto (A Romance)
        Book I
        Book II
        Book III
     Reproach. To Laura
     The Simple Peasant
     Actaeon
     Man's Dignity
     The Messiah
     Thoughts on the 1st October, 1781
     Epitaph
     Quirl
     The Plague (A Phantasy)
     Monument of Moor the Robber
     The Bad Monarchs
     The Satyr and My Muse
     The Peasants
     The Winter Night
     The Wirtemberger
     The Mole
     Hymn to the Eternal
     Dialogue
     Epitaph on a Certain Physiognomist
     Trust in Immortality





   THE JOURNALISTS AND MINOS.

   I chanced the other eve,--
     But how I ne'er will tell,--
   The paper to receive.
     That's published down in hell.

   In general one may guess,
     I little care to see
   This free-corps of the press
     Got up so easily;

   But suddenly my eyes
     A side-note chanced to meet,
   And fancy my surprise
     At reading in the sheet:--

   "For twenty weary springs"
     (The post from Erebus,
   Remark me, always brings
     Unpleasant news to us)--

   "Through want of water, we
     Have well-nigh