Selected Poems and Fragments Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction
	Bibliographical note
	Good Advice	3
	Descriptive Poetry	3
	To Diotima	3
	Diotima ('Bliss of the heavenly Muse ...')	3
	Bonaparte	5
	Empedocles	5
	To the Fates	7
	Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them ...')	7
	To Her Genius	9
	Plea for Forgiveness	9
	Then and Now	9
	The Course of Life ('High my spirit aspired ...')	11
	Brevity	11
	Human Applause	11
	Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	13
	Good Faith	13
	Her Recovery ('Nature, she who's your friend ...')	13
	The Unpardonable	15
	To the Young Poets	15
	To the Germans ('Do not laugh ...')	15
	The Sanctimonious Poets	17
	Sunset	17
	To Our Great Poets	17
	Socrates and Alcibiades	19
	Sophocles	19
	The Angry Poet	19
	The Root of All Evil	19
	Man	23
	Hyperion's Song of Fate	25
	In my boyhood days ...	27
	The Spirit of the Age	29
	Evening Fantasy	31
	In the Morning	33
	The River Main	35
	My Possessions	37
	To Princess Augusta of Homburg	41
	Go down, then, lovely sun ...	43
	To the Germans ('Never laugh at ...')	45
	Rousseau	49
	Heidelberg (Alcaic version)	51
	The Neckar	53
	Home ('Content the boatman turns ...')	55
	Love	57
	The Course of Life ('More you also desired ...')	59
	Her Recovery ('Nature, look, your most loved ...')	61
	The Farewell (second version)	63
	Diotima ('You suffer and keep silent, unknown ...')	65
	Return to the Homeland	67
	The Ancestral Portrait	69
	The Departed	71
	Exhortation (second version)	73
	Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter	75
	Sung beneath the Alps	77
	The Poet's Vocation	79
	Voice of the People (second version)	83
	The Blind Singer	87
	Chiron	91
	Tears	95
	To Hope	97
	Vulcan	97
	The Poet's Courage (first version)	99
	Timidness	101
	The Fettered River	103
	Ganymede	105
	The Archipelago	111
	Menon's Lament for Diotima	127
	The Traveller	137
	Stuttgart	143
	Bread and Wine	151
	Homecoming	159
	The Ages of Life	171
	Half of Life	171
	The Nook at Hardt	173
	As on a holiday ...	175
	At the Source of the Danube	177
	The Journey	183
	Germania	189
	The Rhine	197
	Celebration of Peace	209
	The Only One (first version)	219
	The Only One (second version)	225
	Patmos	231
	Patmos (fragments of the later version)	243
	Remembrance	251
	The Ister	253
	Mnemosyne (third version)	259
	German Song	265
	Home ('And no one knows ...')	267
	For when the grape-vine's sap ...	269
	On fallow foliage ...	269
	What is the life of men ...	271
	What is God? ...	271
	To the Virgin Mary	273
	The Titans	283
	At one time I questioned the Muse ...	287
	But when the heavenly ...	289
	The Eagle	295
	You firmly built alps ...	299
	Whatever is Nearest (third version)	301
	Colombo	305
	When there's a flaming ...	313
	For from the abyss ...	313
	Narcissi ...	315
	In Socrates' Time	317
	Greece (third version)	317
	If from the distance ...	325
	On the Birth of a Child	327
	The world's agreeable things ...	329
	To Zimmer ('The lines of life ...')	329
	Conviction	329
	The Merry Life	329
	The Walk	333
	Spring ('New day descends ...')	333
	Summer ('When then the blooms ...')	335
	Summer ('Still you can see ...')	335
	Autumn ('Nature's bright gleam ...')	337
	Winter ('When past, unseen ...')	337
	Spring ('When springtime from the depth ...')	339
	Index of German first lines	341
	Index of English first lines	345
	Index of German titles	349
	Index of English titles	351