Preface vii Life 3(1) Johann Gottfried Herder The Phoenix 3(2) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Wanderer's Night Song 5(1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Benefactions 5(2) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The Steps 7(1) Albrecht Goes Gratitude and Ingratitude of Children 7(4) Johann Peter Hebel The Little Peasant in Heaven 11(2) Bruder Grimm In the Mist 13(1) Hermann Hesse Trees 13(4) Hermann Hesse Yearning for What 17(94) Walter Bauer The Glove 111(4) Friedrich von Schiller In Memoriam Rockefeller 115(1) Peter Bamm Of Friendship 115(4) Matthias Claudius The Bed 119(8) Paul Ernst Autumnal Feeling 127(1) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Grasshopper 127(10) Waldemar Bonsels Hamlet's Monologue 137(2) William Shakespeare Thoughts IV 139(4) Walt Whitman 143(2) Herbert Eulenberg Tristan 145(2) August Graf von Platen On Social Intercourse 147(6) Ludwig Borne The Half of Life 153(2) Friedrich Holderlin Notes 155(16) Questions 171(26) Vocabulary 197