An anthology of German literature

[Transcriber’s Note:

The earlier poems were printed in long lines with a caesura, shown as a gap, at mid-line. For this e-text, long lines have been broken into two, with the second half indented. Line numbering is explained at the end of the text.

A few typographical errors were corrected. They are listed at the end of the text. Numbers printed as superscripts are shown here in braces: “Vol. 12{2}”. Except for footnotes and their tags, all square brackets [ ] are in the original.]