Friedrich Hölderlin Poems
Hölderlin Tower on the Neckar River in Tübingen - Photo: Jan Hamlet.
The poems are listed in the order they appear on this site. The longer ones are divided into separate webpages to reduce scrolling and facilitate selection. Only “Bread and Wine" and “Homecoming“ are numbered as in Beissner‘s edition.
Brod und Wein
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
To the Fates
An die Parzen
As on a holiday
Wie wenn am Feiertage
Dem Sonnengott
Hyperion's Song of Destiny
Hyperions Schicksalslied
Da ich ein Knabe war
Human Applause
Menschenbeifall
Götter wandelten einst
Lebenslauf
Hälfte des Lebens
Homecoming
Heimkunft
Friedensfeier
Patmos
Die Neckar
Burg Tübingen
Die Wanderung
Der Rhein
Die Ister
Andenken
Mnemosyne
Vom Dolphin
Der Spaziergang
Aussicht
Das fröhliche Leben
In Lovely Blueness
In lieblicher Bläue
An Zimmer
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