Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty

Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty was a member of the Göttingen Hainbund. He wrote delicate songs and elegies on nature, friendship and early death, and died of consumption at twenty-eight.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).