In this poem, lines about "faith's sunlit mountains" and "flowers from the bud" that the title entity coaxes illustrate the Romantic notion of finding God and heavenly ecstasy through "kind nature's flowing breasts." Its first stanza declares "Fire drunken we are ent'ring/He
In this poem, lines about "faith's sunlit mountains" and "flowers from the bud" that the title entity coaxes illustrate the Romantic notion of finding God and heavenly ecstasy through "kind nature's flowing breasts." Its first stanza declares "Fire drunken we are ent'ring/Heavenly, thy holy home!" and uses the phrase "Daughter of Elysium" in a praiseful apostrophe that addresses the titular entity. For 10 points, name this Friedrich von Schiller poem that was set to music in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
In this poem, lines about "faith's sunlit mountains" and "flowers from the bud" that the title entity coaxes illustrate the Romantic notion of finding God and heavenly ecstasy through "kind nature's flowing breasts."