Odes and Elegies

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