To Mystics The Key The Observer Wisdom and Prudence The Agreement Political Precept Majestas Populi The Difficult Union To a World-Reformer My Antipathy Astronomical Writings The Best State To Astronomers My Faith Inside and Outside Friend and Foe Light and Color Genius Beauteous Individuality Variety The imitator Geniality The Inquirers Correctness The Three Ages of Nature The Law of Nature Choice Science of Music To the Poet Language The Master The Girdle The Dilettante The Babbler of Art The Philosophies The Favor of the Muses Homer's Head as a Seal Goodness and Greatness The Impulses Naturalists and Transcendental Philosophers German Genius Theophania TRIFLES The Epic Hexameter The Distich The Eight-line Stanza The Obelisk The Triumphal Arch The Beautiful Bridge The Gate St. Peter's The Philosophers The Homerides G. G. The Moral Poet The Danaides The Sublime Subject The Artifice Immortality Jeremiads Shakespeare's Ghost The Rivers Zenith and Nadir Kant and his Commentators The Philosophers The Metaphysician Pegasus in harness Knowledge The Poetry of Life To Goethe The Present Departure from Life Verses written in the Album of a Learned Friend Verses written in the Album of a Friend The Sunday Children The Highest The Puppet-show of Life To Lawgivers False Impulse to Study To the Prince of Weimar The Ideal of Woman (To Amanda) The Fountain of Second Youth William Tell To a Young Friend Devoting Himself to Philosophy Expectation and Fulfilment The Common Fate Human Action Nuptial Ode The Commencement of the New Century Grecian Genius The Father The Connecting Medium The Moment German Comedy Farewell to the Reader Dedications to Death Preface POEMS OF THE THIRD PERIOD. DEDICATION TO DEATH, MY PRINCIPAL.