This edition features the famous poems from the golden ages of German literature as well as lesser-known works from the intervening periods. Discoveries can be made both in the non-classical periods and in the poetry of contemporary authors, where non-standard lyrical expression and storytelling in verse allow for a new perspective on the world, humanity, and society. More than 1500 poems are gathered in this volume: religious and secular lyrics, occasional poems and love poems, hymns, philosophical odes and didactic poems, ballads and elegies, sonnets and romances, epigrams and songs. The collection is presented here in an expanded and updated new edition: the housebook of German poems.