ABOUT THIS BOOK * INTRODUCTION * ABOUT THE TRANSLATIONS * THE POEMS * POEMS FROM THE EARLY FRANKFURT PERIOD * The Oaks * To the Aether * [and, smiling, the sovereigns] * To Diotima ("Beautiful creature") * Diotima ("You favorite of the heavenly muse") * Leisure * [The nations were silent, they slumbered] * To Diotima ("Come and look at all the joy") * THE SHORTER ODES * The Unpardonable * Then and Now * The Lovers * To the Germans (two stanzas) * Her Recovery * To the Young Poets * The Course of Life (one stanza) * To Her Genius * Brevity * To the Fates * Apology * Good Faith * Diotima ("You fall silent and suffer"; two stanzas) * Home (two stanzas) * Human Applause * The Sanctimonious Poets * Socrates and Alcibiades * To Our Great Poets * To the Sun God * Sunset * Voice of the People (two stanzas) * LATER ODES; ELEGIES AND ELEGIAC FRAGMENTS * [When I was a boy] * [Hyperion's Song of Fate] * Achilles * [Time was the gods walked with men] * Man * The Temperamental Ones * Dying for the Fatherland * The Time-Spirit * Evening Fantasy * In the Morning * The Main * Five Epigrams * * Sophocles * [The Angry Poet] * [The Jokers] * Root of All Evil * What is Mine * [Each day I walk] * [Go now and set, O beautiful sun] * The Gods * Heidelberg * The Neckar * Empedocles * To the Germans (14 stanzas) * Rousseau * Home (six stanzas) * Love * The Course of Life (four stanzas) * Her Recovery (six stanzas) * Diotima ("You fall silent and suffer"; six stanzas) * Return to the Homeland * The Poet's Calling * The Voice of the People (second version; 18 stanzas) * The Poet's Courage (second version) * The Fettered River * The Blind Singer * Stuttgart * The Walk in the Country * Bread and Wine * Homecoming * Bread and Wine (revised version) * NIGHTSONGS * Chiron * Tears * To Hope * Vulcan * Timidity * Ganymede * Half of Life * Ages of Life * The Shelter at Hardt * APPENDIX A: NOTES TO THE POEMS * POEMS, FRAGMENTS, AND REVISED STANZAS TRANSLATED IN APPENDIX A * The Oaks (plan for alternative ending) * Buonaparte * To the Universally Known * To Neuffer * Descriptive Poetry * [If I could hear the warning ones now] * Achilles (plan for alternative ending) * The Battle * In the Morning (earlier draft of ending) * Heidelberg (stanzas from earlier draft) * To the Germans (alternate draft of ending) * Her Recovery (alternate draft of ending) * Diotima (earlier second stanza) * Return to the Homeland (revised stanzas) * The Poet's Calling (alternate draft of ending) * Voice of the People (earlier draft of ending) * The Poet's Courage (first version) * The Walk in the Country (alternate draft of ending) * Homecoming (revision of last three stanzas) * Request (last stanza) * APPENDIX B CHRONOLOGY OF HÖLDERIN'S LIFE.