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This paper examines Friedrich Nietzsche’s poetry in Naumburg, analyzing a selection of poems from an anthology that he wrote as a child and gave to his mother in 1858. In the eyes of the young Nietzsche, this anthology opened his “third period” of poetic creation. The analysis focuses on three key aspects: religious poetry, romantic and nature poetry, and politic poetry. The aim of this study is to show the conflicts, the plurality of voices and the main sources that resonate in this anthology, which is also used to get an overview of Nietzsche’s poetry attempts before his start as an alumnus portensis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]