The study is dedicated to the elegies and hymnical drafts of the Homburger Folioheft, Friedrich Holderlin's central collected manuscript. In differentiated readings, it examines the tension between the purely-written basic or draft layers, as well as their numerous revisions. "Homecoming", "Bread and Wine", "Stuttgart", "The only One", "Patmos" and "The Titans" become subject of this commentary.