• 1769 "Ohne Hast, ohne Rast" ("Haste not, Rest not") • 1771: "
Heidenröslein" ("Heath Rosebud"), • 1773: "
Prometheus", • 1774: "
Der König in Thule", • 1782: "
Der Erlkönig" ("The Alder King"), • 1790:
Römische Elegien (
Roman Elegies), collection • 1794:
Reineke Fuchs, epic fable • 1795 "Ich Denke Dein" ("I Think of You") • 1795–96 (in collaboration with
Friedrich Schiller):
Die Xenien (
The Xenia), collection of epigrams • 1797: "
Der Zauberlehrling" (''The Sorcerer's Apprentice
), (which was later the basis of a symphonic poem by Paul Dukas, which in turn was animated by Disney in Fantasia'') • 1797: "Die Braut von Korinth" ("The Bride of Corinth"), • 1798:
Hermann und Dorothea (
Hermann and Dorothea), epic • 1798:
Die Weissagungen des Bakis (
The Soothsayings of Bakis) • 1799: "
The First Walpurgis Night", • 1813: "
Gefunden" ("Found"), • 1819:
Westöstlicher Diwan, variously translated as
The West-Eastern Divan,
The Parliament of East and West, or otherwise; collection of poems in imitation of
Sufi and other
Sunni Muslim poetry, including that of
Hafez. • 1823: "
Marienbad Elegy", ==Drama==