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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems and Fragments
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
ix
2
Preface
xi
6
Introduction
xvii
27
Bibliographical note
xliv
ODES AND EPIGRAMS (1797-1799)
1
20
EPIGRAMS (1797)
3
16
Good Advice
3
1
Descriptive Poetry
3
1
To Diotima
3
1
Diotima (`Bliss of the heavenly Muse...')
3
2
Bonaparte
5
1
Empedocles
5
2
To the Fates
7
1
Diotima (`You suffer and keep silent and, strange to them...')
7
2
To Her Genius
9
1
Plea for Forgiveness
9
1
Then and Now
9
2
The Course of Life (`High my spirit aspired...')
11
1
Brevity
11
1
Human Applause
11
2
Home (`Content the boatman turns...')
13
1
Good Faith
13
1
Her Recovery (`Nature, she who's your friend...')
13
2
The Unpardonable
15
1
To the Young Poets
15
1
To the Germans (`Do not laugh...')
15
2
The Sanctimonious Poets
17
1
Sunset
17
1
To Our Great Poets
17
2
Socrates and Alcibiades
19
1
EPIGRAMS (1799)
19
2
Sophocles
19
1
The Angry Poet
19
1
The Root of All Evil
19
2
THE LATER ODES (1798-1803)
21
88
Man
23
2
Hyperion's Song of Fate
25
2
In my boyhood days...
27
2
The Spirit of the Age
29
2
Evening Fantasy
31
2
In the Morning
33
2
The River Main
35
2
My Possessions
37
4
To Princess Augusta of Homburg
41
2
Go down, then, lovely sun
43
2
To the Germans (`Never laugh at...')
45
4
Rousseau
49
2
Heidelberg (Alcaic version)
51
2
The Neckar
53
2
Home (`Content the boatman turns...')
55
2
Love
57
2
The Course of Life (`More you also desired...')
59
2
Her Recovery (`Nature, look, your most loved...')
61
2
The Farewell (second version)
63
2
Diotima (`You suffer and keep silent, unknown...')
65
2
Return to the Homeland
67
2
The Ancestral Portrait
69
2
The Departed
71
2
Exhortation (second version)
73
2
Nature and Art or Saturn and Jupiter
75
2
Sung beneath the Alps
77
2
The Poet's Vocation
79
4
Voice of the People (second version)
83
4
The Blind Singer
87
4
Chiron
91
4
Tears
95
2
To Hope
97
1
Vulcan
97
2
The Poet's Courage (first version)
99
2
Timidness
101
2
The Fettered River
103
2
Ganymede
105
4
HEXAMETERS AND ELEGIES (1800-1801)
109
60
The Archipelago
111
16
Menon's Lament for Diotima
127
10
The Traveller
137
6
Stuttgart
143
8
Bread and Wine
151
8
Homecoming
159
10
THE HYMNS (1799-1803)
169
94
The Ages of Life
171
1
Half of Life
171
2
The Nook at Hardt
173
2
As on a holiday
175
2
At the Source of the Danube
177
6
The Journey
183
6
Germania
189
8
The Rhine
197
12
Celebration of Peace
209
10
The Only One (first version)
219
6
The Only One (second version)
225
6
Patmos
231
12
Patmos (fragments of the later version)
243
8
Remembrance
251
2
The Ister
253
6
Mnemosyne (third version)
259
4
FRAGMENTS OF OTHER HYMNS (1800-1805)
263
60
German Song
265
2
Home (`And no one knows...')
267
2
For when the grape-vine's sap
269
1
On fallow foliage
269
2
What is the life of men
271
1
What is God?
271
2
To the Virgin Mary
273
10
The Titans
283
4
At one time I questioned the Muse
287
2
But when the heavenly
289
6
The Eagle
295
4
You firmly built alps
299
2
Whatever is Nearest (third version)
301
4
Colombo
305
8
When there's a flaming
313
1
For from the abyss
313
2
Narcissi
315
2
In Socrates' Time
317
1
Greece (third version)
317
6
LAST POEMS (1807-1843)
323
18
If from the distance
325
2
On the Birth of a Child
327
2
The world's agreeable things
329
1
To Zimmer (`The lines of life...')
329
1
Conviction
329
1
The Merry Life
329
4
The Walk
333
1
Spring (`New day descends...')
333
2
Summer (`When then the blooms...')
335
1
Summer (`Still you can see...')
335
2
Autumn (`Nature's bright gleam...')
337
1
Winter (`When past, unseen...')
337
2
Spring (`When springtime from the depth...')
339
2
Index of German first lines
341
4
Index of English first lines
345
4
Index of German titles
349
2
Index of English titles
351