Friedrich Hölderlin Poems

Hölderlin Tower on the Neckar River in Tübingen - Photo: Jan Hamlet.

These are the poems that appear in this collection. Please note that the longer poems are divided into individually numbered webpages to reduce scrolling. Only “Bread and Wine" and “Homecoming“ are numbered as in Beissner‘s edition.

An die Parzen	To the Fates
An Zimmern	To Zimmer
Andenken	Remembrance
Aussicht	Looking Out
Brod und Wein	Bread and Wine
Burg Tübingen	Tübingen Castle
Da ich ein Knabe war	When I Was a Boy
Das fröhliche Leben	The Cheerful Life
Dem Sonnengott	To the Sun God
Der Ister	The Ister
Der Rhein	The Rhein
Der Spaziergang	Out for a Walk
Der Neckar	The Neckar
Die Wanderung	The Journey
Friedensfeier	Celebration of Peace
Götter wandelten einst	Once Gods Walked
Hälfte des Lebens	Half of Life
Heimkunft	Homecoming
Hyperions Schicksalslied	Hyperion's Song of Destiny
In lieblicher Bläue	In Lovely Blueness
Lebenslauf	The Course of Life
Menschenbeifall	Human Applause
Mnemosyne	Mnemosyne
Patmos	Patmos
Vom Dolphin	About the Dolphin
Wie wenn am Feiertage	As on a Holiday

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