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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: RILKE, Matches Found: 928 Rilke, Rainer Maria Poet's Biography 928 poems available by this author ...WHEN FROM THE MERCHANT'S HAND Last Line: Stills and soothes it with space's equanimity ...WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL IT BE ENOUGH Last Line: And we: listeners at last! The first human listeners ABANDONED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HEART Last Line: Here, exposed on the mountains of the heart ABOUT FOUNTAINS First Line: Suddenly I know a lot about fountains Last Line: Passes over our scattered faces AFTER A DAY OF WIND Last Line: A lovely bas-relief of clouds AFTER SUCH LONG EXPERIENCE LET HOUSE Last Line: Out of the known figure AGAIN AND AGAIN First Line: Again and again, even though we know love's landscape Last Line: Among the flowers, facing opposite the sky AGAIN AND AGAIN, NEVER MIND WE KNOW LOVE'S LANDSCAPE Last Line: Among the old trees, lie down again and again %among the flowers, against the sky AGAIN, AGAIN! First Line: Again, again, even if we know the countryside of love Last Line: Beneath the ancient trees, we lie down again, %again, among the flowers, and face the sky Subject(s): Imagination; Vision AH MISERY, MY MOTHER TEARS ME DOWN Last Line: And christ comes and washes her each day AH, ADRIFT IN THE AIR Last Line: And the belatedly open house %remains empty AH, AS WE PRAYED FOR HUMAN HELP First Line: Ah, as we prayed for human help: angels soundlessly Last Line: With single strides, climbed over %our prostrate hearts AH, NOT BEING SUNDERED Last Line: From winds of hometurning AH, NOT TO BE CUT OFF Last Line: With winds of homecoming AH, NOT TO BE CUT OFF Subject(s): Religion ALCESTIS First Line: Then the messenger was suddenly among them Last Line: To keep him from witnessing anything beyond the %smile ALL MY GOODBYES ARE SAID First Line: All my goodbyes are said. Many separations Last Line: These absences that make us act ALL MY GOODBYES ARE SAID. MANY SEPARATIONS Last Line: These absences that make us act ALL OF YOU UNDISTURBED CITIES Last Line: He is the one who breaks down the walls, %and when he works,he works in silence Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ALMOND TREES IN BLOOM First Line: The almond trees in bloom: the most we can achieve here is to know Last Line: All lesser dangers, safe in the single great one ALMOND TREES IN BLOSSOM: ALL WE CAN Last Line: Small danger, and would find peace in the greatest dange of all ALMOST AS ON THE LAST DAY First Line: Almosts as on the last day the dead will tear themselves Last Line: Stiff-living horror evolves, and branches in silence ALONG THE SUN-DRENCHED ROADSIDE, ... FR. LAST POEMS ALSO TO AFFIRM EVEN RAPTURE Last Line: Like a thing AND ALL NEVER-BELONGING BE YOURS AND ALMOST MAIDEN-LIKE WAS WHAT DREW NEAR Last Line: Sinking to where from me?...Almost a maid AND ALMOST MAIDEN-LIKE WAS WHAT DREW NEAR Last Line: Sinking to where from me?...Almost a maid AND IT WAS ALMOST A GIRL First Line: And it was almost a girl who stepping Last Line: Where has she vanished to? A girl almost Subject(s): Girls AND THEN THAT GIRL THE ANGELS CAME TO VISIT Last Line: And she was like a slope with vines, heavily bearing Subject(s): Imagination; Vision AND WHERE IS HE? First Line: And where is he, the clear one, whose tone rings to us Last Line: The great evening star of poverty ANGELS First Line: They all have mouths so tired, tired Last Line: In the dark book of origins ANGELS First Line: They all have tired mouths Last Line: In the dark book of the beginning ANNUNCIATION First Line: You are not nearer god than we Last Line: You though are the tree ANNUNCIATION First Line: It isn't just that an angel entered: realize Last Line: Then the angel sang his song ANNUNCIATION (WORDS OF THE ANGEL) First Line: You are not nearer god than we Last Line: You, lady are the tree ANNUNCIATION TO MARY First Line: The angel's entrance (you must realize) Last Line: Then he sang out and made his tidings known ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS First Line: Look up, friends. Men there by the fire Last Line: Of her ecstasy, guiding you ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS FROM ABOVE First Line: Look up, you men. Men at the fire there, you Last Line: Thrown by her inwardness, which is your guide Subject(s): Christmas ANTICIPATE ALL FAREWELLS, AS WERE THEY BEHIND YOU Last Line: Count yourself joyfully in and destroy the account ANTICIPATE ALL FAREWELLS, AS WERE THEY BEHIND YOU Last Line: Count yourself joyfully in and destroy the account ANTISTROPHES First Line: Ah, women, that you are here on earth, that you Last Line: For the swarms of the solitary man APPREHENSION First Line: In the faded forest there is a bird call Last Line: For which anyone would have to die %risen out of it ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO Poem Text First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We did not know his unfamiliar head Last Line: Which does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Imagination; Men; Mythology - Classical; Statues; Vision ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We never knew his head and all the light Last Line: That does not see you. You must change your life Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We never knew his stupendous head Last Line: That doesn't see you. You must change your life ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We never knew his extraordinary head Last Line: But finds you out. You've got to change your life ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO First Line: We wouldn't recognize his strange face Last Line: That you are not revealed. You must change your life ARE NOT THE NIGHTS FASHIONED FROM THE SORROWFUL Last Line: Yourself like a spring, enclose yourself like a laurel ARRIVAL First Line: Inside a rose your bed stands, beloved. You yourself Last Line: Suddenly: face to face with you, I am born in the eye AS LONG AS YOU CATCH SELF-THROWN THINGS Last Line: Would launch itelf and flame into its spaces AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT Last Line: The god wishes to consult AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT Poem Text Subject(s): Religion ASHANTI First Line: No vision of far-off countries Last Line: And with their fierce instincts all alone ASSAULT ME, MUSIC, WITH RHYTHMIC FURY! Last Line: She whose absence you parchingly endure AUTUMN Poem Text First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as though strewed Last Line: In his great hands, tender ineffably. AUTUMN First Line: Oh gazing's tall tree, shedding lead on leaf Last Line: But a homesickness can't forget that tree AUTUMN First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as if from far off Last Line: With infinite softness in his hands AUTUMN First Line: The autumn leaves are falling Last Line: Carefully in his hand %everything falling forever Variant Title(s): Herbs Subject(s): Autumn; Seasons AUTUMN First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as from far Last Line: With endless softness, endlessly to land AUTUMN DAY Poem Text First Line: Lord: it is time Last Line: All restless, as the drifting fall-leaves stray. AUTUMN DAY First Line: Lord: it is time. The summer was immense Last Line: The tree-lined streets, when the leaves are drifting AUTUMN DAY First Line: Lord: it is time. The summer was immense Last Line: Restlessly, while the leaves are blowing AUTUMN DAY First Line: Lord, it was much, the summer: but it's time now Last Line: And blowing leaves, down this street, that street, or another AUTUMN DAY First Line: Lord, it is time. The summer was enormous Last Line: Wander restless, while dead leaves are blown AUTUMN EVENING First Line: Wind from the moon Last Line: Into the flickering city BANANA, ROUNDED APPLE, RUSSET PEAR Last Line: O experience, feeling, joy, - celestial BANANA, ROUNDED APPLE, RUSSET PEAR Last Line: O experience, feeling, joy, - celestial BAUDELAIRE First Line: The poet alone has made one the world Last Line: And even annihilation turns to world BE NOT AFRAID, GOD Poem Text First Line: Be not afraid, god. They say: mine Last Line: And growing sweeter in its solitude. BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY NEAR Last Line: Hesitated at the door BEFORE A SUMMER RAIN First Line: At once from all the greenness in the park Last Line: With all its lovely expectation and fear BEFORE SUMMER RAIN First Line: All at once something Last Line: Afternoons you feared would never end Subject(s): Rain BEFORE THE PASSION First Line: Oh, willing this, you should not have been born Last Line: And you have suddenly turned nature round BEFORE THE PASSION First Line: If this is what you wanted, you shouldn't Last Line: Now all at once you alter nature's course BEFORE THE SUMMER RAIN First Line: Abruptly, nobody knows what it is, something's Last Line: You felt afraid in when you were a child BEFORE YOU CAN COUNT TEN Last Line: The vast surface rests BEGGAR'S SONG First Line: Always I go from gate to gate Last Line: So they don't think I hadn't %a place to lay my head BEHIND THE INNOCENT TREES Last Line: Nestled in the celstial motion, %a ghostly outline BEHIND THE INNOCENT TREES Last Line: Nestled in the celestial motion, %a ghostly outline BEING, AND CONFINEMENT Last Line: If you cannot be everything: no longer this BEING-SILENT. WHO KEEPS INNERLY Last Line: Was the word to him made evident BESIDE THE ROAD USED TO SUN First Line: Beside the road used to sun, in the Last Line: Be it on the thrusting pressure of your breasts BIRDCALLS BEGIN THEIR PRAISE Last Line: The beautiful silence that they break BIRDS' VOICES ARE STARTING TO PRAISE Last Line: The beautiful silence they break BIRTH OF CHRIST First Line: If you lacked simplicity, how then Last Line: But (as you will see): joy comes of him BIRTH OF CHRIST First Line: If you had lacked the simplicity, how Last Line: But (you will see): he brings joy BIRTH OF MARY First Line: O what it must have cost them, the hosts of heaven Last Line: Of a dark cow. For things were never so strange BIRTH OF MARY First Line: Oh what it must have cost the angels not to Last Line: Of a dark cow...It was never like this before BLACK CAT Poem Text First Line: A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place Last Line: Inside the golden amber of her eyeballs %suspended, like a prehistoric fly Subject(s): Animals; Cats BLACKNOSE SHARK First Line: When his family moved to the suburbs Last Line: First one's a flat nose kike, he grinned BLANK JOY First Line: She who did not come, wasn't she determined Last Line: I preferred you among so many outlined joys BLESSED First Line: The angels stand there, immense angels stand Last Line: And blesses us even if we barely lift it BLIND MAN'S SONG First Line: I am blind, you out there. That is a curse BLIND WOMAN First Line: You aren't afraid to speak of it Last Line: Doesn't find my eyes %I know BLUE HYDRANGEAS Poem Text First Line: Like the last green in crucibles of dyes Last Line: A touching blue rejoicing in the green. BLUE HYDRANGEAS First Line: These leaves are like the last vestige of green Last Line: A touching blue delights itself in green BODY WASHERS First Line: They had gotten used to him. But when Last Line: Lay bare and cleanly there and issued laws BODY'S CROSSROADS First Line: The body's crossroads: and yet the heavenly streets Last Line: Are turned round and out into pure space BOOK OF HOURS, SELS. First Line: I live my life in circles that grow wide Subject(s): Immortality BOOK OF THE MONK'S LIFE, SELS. BOWL OF ROSES First Line: Angry ones: you saw them flare up, saw two boys Last Line: It now lies carefree in these open roses BOWL OF ROSES First Line: Anger, you've seen it flare up, seen two boys BOWL OF ROSES First Line: You saw angry ones flare, saw two boys Last Line: Now it lies free of cares in the open roses Subject(s): Flowers; Roses BOY First Line: I'd like, above all, to be one of those Last Line: We ride, and our great horses rush like rain BREATHING, INVISIBLE POEM! THAT GREAT Last Line: Rondure and leaf of my phrases BREATHING, INVISIBLE POEM! THAT GREAT Last Line: Rondure and leaf of my phrases BRIDE First Line: Call to me, love, call to me loudly Last Line: Into the gardens of %dark blue Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage BRIDGE OF THE CAROUSEL First Line: The blind man, standing on the bridge, as grey Last Line: The somber entrance to the underworld %amid a blindly passing breed of men BROTHER BODY IS POOR First Line: Brother body is poor...: then we'll have to be rich for him Last Line: Friendship is hard BUDDHA IN GLORY Poem Text First Line: Center of all centers, core of cores Last Line: Will be, when all the stars are dead Subject(s): Imagination; Religion; Vision BUT IF YOU'D TRY THIS First Line: But if you'd try this: to be hand in my hand Last Line: If you'd try this BUT WHAT SHALL I OFFER YOU, MASTER, SAY Last Line: Unbrokenly through him. %his image: accept BUT WHAT SHALL I OFFER YOU, MASTER, SAY, Last Line: Unbrokenly through him. %his image accept BY THE SUN-ACCUSTOMED STREET First Line: By the sun-accustomed street, in the Last Line: Be it on the rapture of your breasts BY THE SUN-SURROUNDED ROAD, Last Line: Be it on the pressure of your breasts CADET PICTURE OF MY FATHER First Line: There's absence in the eyes. The brow's in touch Last Line: Oh quickly disappearing photograph %in my more slowly disappearing hand! CALL ME TO YOUR LONELY MEETING-PLACES Last Line: Of a peril ripening unseen CAT First Line: The show cat: a soul conferring Last Line: Seem signed by magisterial misfortune CHANGE THOUGH THE WORLD MAY AS FAST Last Line: Hallowing and hailing CHANGE THOUGH THE WORLD MAY AS FAST Last Line: Hallowing and hailing CHARLES THE TWELFTH OF SWEDEN RIDES IN THE UKRAINE First Line: Kings in legends are like Last Line: And with the eyes of lovers CHEERFUL GIFT FROM THE CHILLIER Last Line: And as they happily maintain %going is song CHILD IN RED First Line: Sometimes she walks thrugh the village in her little red dress Last Line: The little red dress will always seem right CHILDHOOD First Line: The school's long stream of time and tediousness Last Line: Oh, where, oh, where CHILDHOOD First Line: School's long anxiety and time slips past Last Line: To where? To where? CHILDHOOD First Line: Time in school drags along with so much worry Last Line: On childhood, what was us going away, %going where? Where? Subject(s): Imagination; Vision CHILDHOOD [KINDHEIT] First Line: So ran the schoolday, full of time and stress CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL First Line: Finally suffered-out, his being exited the terrible Last Line: Stood, no handhold, possessor of pains. Was silent CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL First Line: When it was too much, he passed out Last Line: Stood there, without a railing, landlord of agony. %silent CLOSING PIECE First Line: Death is great Last Line: Immersed in us CLOUDS First Line: These laborers of rain, these heavy clouds Last Line: And closes herself on the unutterable COME WHEN YOU SHOULD First Line: Come when you should. All this will have been Last Line: That vioceless heartstream of things held dear COME YOU, YOU LAST ONE, WHOM I AVOW Last Line: Do not mix into this what early enthralled COME, YOU LAST THING First Line: Come, you last thing, which I acknowledge Last Line: Don't mix those early marvels into this CONFIRMED First Line: In white veils the confirmed enter Last Line: And many windows opened up and shone CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War DANCER: YOU TRANSMUTATION Last Line: Swiftly inscribed on the wall of your own swift turning DAS BUCH DER BILDER: 6. FROM A STORMY NIGHT First Line: On nights like this all cities are alike Last Line: And hold their hands before their faces DAS BUCH DER BILDER: 8. FROM A STORMY NIGHT First Line: On nights like this my little sister grows Last Line: She must be lovely now. Soon the suitors will call DAS BUCH DER BILDER: AUTUMN First Line: The leaves fall, fall as if from far away Last Line: Eternally in his hands' tenderness DAS BUCH DER BILDER: AUTUMN DAY First Line: Lord, it is time. The summer was too long Last Line: Restlessly wander when dead leaves are blown DAS BUCH DER BILDER: END OF AUTUMN First Line: I have seen for some time now Last Line: Of the sky lies heavily DAS BUCH DER BILDER: EVENING First Line: Slowly now the evening changes his garments Last Line: Is changed in you by turns to stone and stars DAS BUCH DER BILDER: FROM A CHILDHOOD First Line: The darkness was a richness in the room Last Line: Heavily through deep drifts of snow DAS BUCH DER BILDER: INITIATION First Line: Whoever you are, go out into the evening Last Line: Then tenderly your eyes will let it go... DAS BUCH DER BILDER: LAMENT First Line: Oh, everything is far Last Line: In the sky at the end of the beam of light DAS BUCH DER BILDER: MADNESS First Line: She must ever brood: I am...I am... Last Line: Yes, dance in a city street! DAS BUCH DER BILDER: MEMORY First Line: And you wait, awaiting the one Last Line: Of anguish and vision and prayer DAS BUCH DER BILDER: SOLEMN HOUR Poem Text First Line: Who weeps now anywhere in the world Last Line: Looks at me DAS BUCH DER BILDER: SOLITUDE First Line: Solitude is like a rain Last Line: Then solitude flows onward with the rivers DAS BUCH DER BILDER: STROPHES First Line: There is one who takes all within his hand Last Line: Though I have heard much evil of him spoken DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE ANGELS First Line: They all have weary mouths Last Line: The leaves of the dark book of the beginning DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE KNIGHT First Line: The knight rides forth in sable mail Last Line: And sing %and play? DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE NEIGHBOR First Line: Strange violin, are you following me? Last Line: Than the heaviness of all things? DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE SOLITARY First Line: As one who has sailed across an unknown sea Last Line: But here they hold their breath, as if for shame DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE SONG OF THE WAIF First Line: I am nobody and always will be Last Line: He doesn't love anything now DAVID First Line: Oh that the king might once more command me Last Line: That which he commanded DAVID SINGS FOR SAUL First Line: King, do you hear how my strings Last Line: We'd almost make one circling star DEATH First Line: Here stands death, a bluish decoction Last Line: Not to forget you. To stand Subject(s): Death DEATH First Line: And here stands death, a bluish distillate Last Line: Never to forget you. To stand DEATH First Line: There death stands, a bluish residue Last Line: Never to forget you. To stay standing DEATH First Line: Death stands there, a bluish concoction Last Line: Not to forget this. To last! DEATH IS GREAT DEATH OF MARY First Line: The identical angel, the great one who Last Line: Friend, kneel here. Look after me when I go, and %sing DEATH OF MOSES First Line: None of them, only the dark, fallen angel Last Line: A re-created one, among the mountains of the earth, %indisti DEATH OF MOSES First Line: None of them were willing, just the dark Last Line: Earth, %hidden to us DEATH OF THE BELOVED First Line: He knew death only from what all men say Subject(s): Immortality DEATH OF THE POET First Line: He lay. His propped-up countenance severe Subject(s): Death DEATH-EXPERIENCE First Line: We don't know anything about this passing on--it Last Line: We play life true, not thinking of applause DIVINE DISGRACE First Line: Too unfaithful mouth, my blunt will Last Line: But no more iron forged between us DO YOU ALSO PONDER THAT WE ARE ALL Last Line: We gamecup, into which the ball falls DO YOU STILL REMEMBER First Line: Do you still remember: falling stars, how Last Line: And was whole, as though it would survive them DOES HE BELONG HERE? NO, HIS SPREADING Last Line: Glorifying pitchers or bracelets or rings DOES HE BELONG HERE? NO, HIS SPREADING Last Line: Glorifying pitchers or bracelets or rings DOES IT EXIST, THOUGH, TIME THE DESTROYER Last Line: Powers a celestial need Subject(s): Troy DOG First Line: Up there's the image of a world which glances Last Line: And yet renouncing: for he wouldn't be DOLL. TEMPTATION! Last Line: The loaded doll, which falls into the chasm DON JUAN'S CHILDHOOD First Line: In his slenderness, already almost the decisive factor Last Line: Which admired him and moved him DOVE THAT VENTURED OUTSIDE Subject(s): Religion DUINO ELEGIES: 1 First Line: Who, if I shouted, among the hierarchy of angels Last Line: That vibration which now enraptures, consoles and helps us? DUINO ELEGIES: 1 First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Last Line: That harmony which now enraptures and comforts and helps us Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 1 First Line: If I did cry out, who would hear me through the angel Last Line: Began those vibrations that now charm us and comfort %and help DUINO ELEGIES: 10 First Line: That someday at the close of this grim vision Last Line: When a joyous thing falls DUINO ELEGIES: 10 First Line: Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight Last Line: Whenever a happy thing falls Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 10. First Line: May I some day, at the exit of grim understanding Last Line: When a happy thing falls DUINO ELEGIES: 2 Poem Text First Line: Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas Last Line: Wherein it tempers itself more loftily DUINO ELEGIES: 2 First Line: Every angel is terrifying. But, alas Last Line: Follow it in images that soothe it or in godlike bodies %where it achieves an even greater restraint DUINO ELEGIES: 2 First Line: Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas Last Line: Where, measured more greatly, it achieves a greater repose Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 2 First Line: Every angel is terrible. Still though, alas! DUINO ELEGIES: 3 First Line: It is one thing to sing the beloved. Another, alas Last Line: The preponderance of the nights...Restrain him DUINO ELEGIES: 3 First Line: It's one thing to sing about someone you love. But another thing Last Line: Lead him toward the garden, give him the night's %superabundance. %hold him back... DUINO ELEGIES: 3 First Line: It is one thing to sing the beloved Last Line: The heaviest night - %restrain him DUINO ELEGIES: 4 First Line: O trees of life, oh, when winterly? Last Line: Is past description DUINO ELEGIES: 4 First Line: O trees of life, what are your signs of winter Last Line: So gently and so free from all resentment, %transcends description DUINO ELEGIES: 4 First Line: O trees of life, o when's winter's sleep? Last Line: All of death, so gently even before you've lived %and not get angry, %that's beyond all description DUINO ELEGIES: 4 Poem Text First Line: O trees of life, when does your winter come Last Line: Gently, and not refuse to go on living, %is inexpressible DUINO ELEGIES: 5 First Line: But tell me. Who are these vagrants, these even a little Last Line: On the assuaged carpet? DUINO ELEGIES: 5 First Line: But tell me, who are they, these travellers, even a little Last Line: Truthfully smiling pair on the quietened carpet DUINO ELEGIES: 5 First Line: But tell me, who are they, these itinerant acrobats, a little Last Line: Whose smile finally became genuine out %on the motionless carpet? Subject(s): Acrobats And Acrobatism DUINO ELEGIES: 5 First Line: Yet who are they, tell me, the travellers, these a bit DUINO ELEGIES: 5 First Line: But tell me, who are they, these wanderers, even more Last Line: Genuinely smiling pair on the gratified carpet DUINO ELEGIES: 6 First Line: Fig tree, for ever so long it's meant much to me Last Line: Already turning, he stood at the end of smiles, another DUINO ELEGIES: 6 First Line: Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me Last Line: Turning away, he's stand at the end of the smiles, another DUINO ELEGIES: 6 First Line: Fig tree, how long it's had meaning for me Last Line: Already turned away, he stood at the end of the smiles %transformed DUINO ELEGIES: 6 First Line: Fig-tree, for such a long time I have found meaning Last Line: At the end of all smiles, %-- transfigured Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 7 First Line: Wooing no more, not wooing , but the voice sprung from it Last Line: You unseizable one, wide open DUINO ELEGIES: 7 First Line: Don't let wooing be the nature of your cry anymore Last Line: Incomprehensible being, spread wide open DUINO ELEGIES: 7 First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown Last Line: And warning, inapprehensible Subject(s): Longing; Religion DUINO ELEGIES: 7 First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing Last Line: Ungraspable one, far above DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: With full gaze the animal sees the open Last Line: Forever saying farewell DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: With all its eyes the creature-world beholds Last Line: We live our lives, for ever taking leave DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: With all their eyes, all creatures see Last Line: We live that way forever saying goodbye DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: With all its eyes the animal looks out into Last Line: So we live and are forever taking our leave DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: All other creatures look into the open Subject(s): Animals DUINO ELEGIES: 8 First Line: With all its eyes the natural world looks out Last Line: So we live here, forever taking leave DUINO ELEGIES: 9 First Line: Why, if it's possible to spend this span Last Line: Is welling up in my heart DUINO ELEGIES: 9 First Line: Why, when this span of life might be fleeted away Last Line: Supernumerous existence %wells up in my heart DUINO ELEGIES: 9 First Line: Why, if it's possible to spend the term of existence Last Line: Diminishes...Overflowing being %springs up in my heart DUINO ELEGIES: 9 First Line: Why, if this interval of being can be spent serenely Last Line: Grows any smaller -- superabundant %being wells up in my heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EARLIER, HOW OFTEN, WE'D REMAIN First Line: Earlier, how often, we'd remain, star in star Last Line: And the night, how it granted us %the wide-awake accord EARLY APOLLO First Line: As framing boughs, still leafless, can exhibit Last Line: Its singing were being gradually infused EARLY SPRING First Line: Harshness disappeared. Suddenly caring spreads itself Last Line: Visage in the empty tree EARLY SPRING First Line: Harshness gone. And sudden mitigation Last Line: Unexpectedly you find it, welling %upwards in the empty tree Subject(s): Nature EIGHTH ELEGY First Line: With all its eyes the creature Last Line: So we live, forever taking our leave EIGHTH ELEGY First Line: It is with all its eyes that the creature sees Last Line: That way we live, forever taking leave ELEGY First Line: O the losses into the all, marina, the falling stars Last Line: Our own solitary course over the sleepless landscape END OF AUTUMN First Line: I have seen for some time Last Line: Relentlessly denying sky ENTRANCE First Line: Whoever you are: in the evening step out Last Line: Tenderly your eyes let it go ENTRANCE First Line: Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight Last Line: Then close your eyes and gently set it free EVA First Line: Simply she stands, by the cathedral portal EVE First Line: On the immense rise of the cathedral EVENING First Line: Slowly he evening puts on the garments Last Line: Grows alternately stone in you and star EVENING IN SKANE First Line: The park is high. And as out of a house Last Line: Distance as perhaps only birds know EVENING LOVE SONG First Line: Orfnamental clouds Last Line: With these black horizontals EVENING STAR First Line: One star in the dark pass of the houses EVERYTHING IS PLAY, AND YET PLAYS EXPERIENCE OF DEATH First Line: We have no clues to this departed state EXPERIENCE OF DEATH First Line: We cannot grasp this one departure that Last Line: Perform real life, not caring who applauds EXPOSED ON THE CLIFFS OF THE HEART. LOOK, HOW TINY ... Poem Text Last Line: Without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FADED First Line: She carries her handkerchief, her gloves FIFTH ELEGY First Line: But who are they, tell me these itinerants, more Last Line: Truly smiling pair on the quietened %carpet? FIRE'S REFLECTION First Line: Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection Last Line: By an overflowing heart FIRST ELEGY First Line: Who, if I screamed out, would hear me among the hierarchies Last Line: The vibration that now enraptures, consoles, and helps us FLAMINGOS First Line: With all the subtle paints of fragonard Last Line: Stride into their imaginary world Subject(s): Birds FLAMINGOS First Line: In these fragonard-like mirrorings Last Line: And stride off one by one into the imaginary FLAMINGOS; JARDIN DE PLANTES, PARIS First Line: With all the subtle paints of fragonard Last Line: But they stretch out, astonished, and one by one %stride into their imaginary world Subject(s): Flamingos; Paris, France FLOWERS, WHOSE KINSHIP WITH ORDERING HANDS Last Line: You to them once more, who blend with you %in their bloom FLOWERS, WHOSE KINSHIP WITH ORDERING HANDS WE ARE ABLE Last Line: You to them once more, who blend with you %in their bloom FOR A FRIEND First Line: I have my dead, and I would let them go Last Line: As the most distant sometimes helps: in me Variant Title(s): Requie Subject(s): Mourning FOR COUNT KARL LANCKORONSKI First Line: No intellect, no ardour is redundant Last Line: The rhythm of some stoniness within FOR HANS CAROSSA First Line: Losing also is ours; and even forgetting Last Line: Of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure FOR HANS CAROSSA First Line: Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting FOR LORD, THE CROWDED CITIES BE FOR MAX PICARD First Line: And so we stand with mirrors Last Line: Only for this. But this repays FOR THE SAKE OF A SINGLE POEM First Line: Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life Last Line: Some very rare hour the first word of a poem arises in their midst and goes forth from them Subject(s): Imagination; Vision FORCE OF GRAVITY First Line: Center, how you draw yourself out Last Line: Abundant rain of force FORGET, FORGET First Line: Forget, forget, and let us live now Last Line: And invest this world where %everything is lunar FOUNTAIN First Line: I want just one lesson, and it's yours Last Line: Return passes through your liquid leaping FOURTH ELEGY First Line: O trees of life, when does your winter come? Last Line: This is beyond description FRAGMENT OF A RESURRECTION First Line: With a blast of its trumpet the angel Last Line: Which stand above, ranked according to the %great ones FRAGMENTS FROM LOST DAYS First Line: Like birds that get used to walking Last Line: In which all things change FROM A CHILDHOOD First Line: The dark grew ripe like treasure in the room Last Line: And over the white keys went FROM A CHILDHOOD First Line: The darkening was like treasures in the room Last Line: Traveled over the white keys FROM A CHILDHOOD First Line: The darkening was like riches in the room Last Line: As it were heavily in snowdrifts going, %over the white keys went Subject(s): Children; Time FROM A CHILDHOOD First Line: The darkening was like riches in the room Last Line: It went over the white keys FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 1 First Line: Nights like these, you can meet in the streets Last Line: Of fishes and the diving of hawsers FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 2 First Line: Nights like these, the prison doors swing open Last Line: Hung with their long punishments %woods FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 3 First Line: Nights like these, there is suddenly Last Line: Which plays as he fades FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 4 First Line: Nights like these, as in days long past Last Line: By blind tortoises, which begin to stir FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 5 First Line: Nights like these, the unhealable know Last Line: And: so he will celebrate that %he feels FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 6 First Line: Nights like these, all the cities are the same Last Line: And hold their hands in front of their faces FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 7 First Line: Nights like these, the dying see clearly Last Line: Which they have gathered throughout years %that are gone FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 8 First Line: Nights like these, my little sister grows Last Line: She must be beautiful by now. Soon someone %will wed her FROM A STORMY NIGHT: TITLE LEAF First Line: The night, stirred by burgeoning storms Last Line: For thousands of years FROM AN APRIL First Line: Again the woods smell sweet Last Line: Into the brushwood's glimmering buds FROM CHILDHOOD First Line: The darkness in the room was like enormous riches Last Line: As if plowing through deep drifts of snow Subject(s): Men; Mothers FROM FATHER TO SON First Line: Reject the complicated life Last Line: From father to son and from son to father Subject(s): Fathers And Sons FROM OUT OF A STORMY NIGHT First Line: On nights like this, as many days gone by Last Line: By blind turtles, that stir themselves and shake Subject(s): Night FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM First Line: From the back of the room, the bed, only a pallor spread Last Line: Where their flight flashing in soft arcs parades a return of gentleness FROM THE CYCLE: NIGHTS First Line: Night. Oh you in depths dissolving Last Line: Earth, I dare in you to be FROM THE POEMS OF COUNT C.W. First Line: Karnak. We'd ridden, dinner quickly done with Last Line: Yet who but gives the price gives up the prize FROM THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, PART ONE: 1 First Line: There rose a tree. O pure uprising! Last Line: You built a temple in the precincts of their hearing FROM THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, PART ONE: 2 First Line: It was nearly a girl who went forth Last Line: From me -- where does she fade to? Still nearly a girl... FROM THE SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, PART ONE: 3 First Line: Erect no memorial stone. Let the rose Last Line: And he obeys while breaking all the bans FROM TIME TO TIME Last Line: And raised up and destroyed from far away FRUIT First Line: It climbed and climbed from earth invisibly Last Line: Back to the centre it outgrew FULL POWER First Line: Ah, could we escape counters and strikers of hours Last Line: Animal steps into the mortal blow FURROW IN MY BRAIN Last Line: Over you and them FUTURE First Line: The future: time's excuse Last Line: The absence that we are GARDEN, BY APPROACHING RAINS First Line: Gardens, by approaching rains almost tenderly darkened Last Line: Even in the lightest things we waken counterweight GAZELLE; GAZELLA DORCAS First Line: Enchanted thing: how can two chosen words Last Line: A girl hears leaves rustle, and turns to look: %the forest pool reflected in her face Subject(s): Gazelles GIRL'S MELANCHOLY First Line: A young knight comes to mind Last Line: On a favorite book GIRLS First Line: Others must travel long paths Last Line: Like foresight, that many look on you GIVE ME, OH EARTH, PURE UNMINGLING Last Line: All being suits itself GLIMPSE OF A CHILDHOOD Poem Text First Line: The darkness in the room is pregnant, seeming Last Line: Move on the snow-white keys. Subject(s): Children; Childhood GLORY OF BUDDHA First Line: Center of all centers, pit of all pits Last Line: That which will outlive these suns GOD CAN DO IT. BUT CAN A MAN EXPECT Last Line: An aimless breath. A stirring in the god. A breeze GOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES First Line: And they confined him at attention Last Line: And fled the face of ciphers glaring down GOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES First Line: And they'd stored him up inside themselves Last Line: And fled before his face GOD WON'T BE LIVED LIKE SOME LIGHT MORNING Last Line: Stand hunched and pry him loose in tunnels GODS PERHAPS ARE STILL STRIDING ALONG Last Line: Suddenly adheres itself %to its erected forms GOING BLIND First Line: She sat just like the rest at tea that day Last Line: She would no longer walk: for she would soar Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND First Line: She sat just like the other ones at tea Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND First Line: She sat at tea just like the others. First Last Line: Might not be walking any more, but flying GOING BLIND First Line: She sat much like the others at tea Last Line: She would no longer walk, but fly GOLD DWELLS SOMEWHERE AT EASE IN THE PAMPERING BANK Last Line: Only a god could hear GOLDSMITH First Line: Slowly! Patience! I remind the wings GONG First Line: No more for ears - tone Last Line: Our treason toward all - gong! GONG [II] First Line: No longer for ears...: sound Last Line: Our treason -- to everything...: gong GONG [I] First Line: Sound, no longer measurable Last Line: Were space maturing GRAVITY First Line: Center, how you from all things living Last Line: As from a cloud suspended, %gravity's ample rain GRAY LOVE-SNAKES First Line: Gray love-snakes I have startled Last Line: They lie on me now and digest %lumps of lust GREAT NIGHT First Line: Often I stare at you, stand at a window begun yesterday Last Line: Shed a smile and entered me GREAT NIGHT First Line: Often I stared at you, stood at the window begun yesterday Last Line: Passed over me. Your smile, spanning vast %solemnities, ent GREEK LOVE-TALK First Line: What I, as one loved, already early learned Last Line: And their own pleasure superintend GROWING BLIND Poem Text First Line: She sat, like all the rest of us, at tea Last Line: She would no longer walk her way, but fly. Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped GROWING OLD First Line: In some summers there is so much fruit Last Line: As uselessly as the power of millennia GROWNUP First Line: All this stood on her and was the world Last Line: In thee, thou once a child, in thee Subject(s): Change; Children; Growth; Women GUARDIAN ANGEL First Line: You are the bird whose wings came Last Line: Do I need to ask GUEST First Line: Who is the guest? I was in your circle Last Line: Equally distant from known and unknown HAIKU First Line: Little moths stagger quivering out of the hedge Last Line: They will die this evening and will never realize %that it wasn't spring HAIL THE SPIRIT ABLE TO UNITE! Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAIL, THE SPIRIT ABLE TO UNITE Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAIL, THE SPIRIT ABLE TO UNITE! Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAND First Line: See the little titmouse Last Line: Still has death enough %and held money HAND First Line: Look at the tiny bird Last Line: There is still death enough %and was money HARK, THE EARLIEST HARROWS STRIVING Last Line: Hours grow more eternally young HARK, THE EARLIEST HARROWS STRIVING Last Line: Hours grow more eternally young HAWTHORNE First Line: The hawthorne there: who would guess Last Line: You who had to have them in your room -- %so many flowers HE BOY First Line: I want to become like one of those Last Line: And our horses sweep down like rain HEAD OF AMENOPHIS IV IN BERLIN First Line: As young meadows, flowerfilled, through Last Line: Sensual separation of its nosstrils.) (provisional) HEART'S SWING First Line: Heart's swing. O so securely fastened Last Line: Of the rounding, ever-reversing strength HER SMILE HAD BECOME Last Line: Inside the chosen case HERBSTTAG First Line: Now is the right time, lord. Summer is over Last Line: In the late streets, while the leaves stray down HOW IT THRILLS US, THE BIRD'S CLEAR CRY Last Line: May bear on its waters the head and the lyre HOW IT THRILLS US, THE BIRD'S CLEAR CRY... Last Line: May bear on its waters the head and the lyre HOW SHOULD SUCH A BOOK Last Line: And mysterious glow which doesn't die HUMAN BEINGS AT NIGHT First Line: The nights are not made for the masses Last Line: And mean: anybody I AM, O ANXIOUS ONE. DON'T YOU HEAR MY VOICE Last Line: And turn myself into a star's vast silence %above the strange and distant city, time Subject(s): Imagination; Vision I FIND YOU IN ALL THESE THINGS OF THE WORLD Last Line: And in the treetops like a rising from the dead I HAVE MANY BROTHERS IN THE SOUTH Last Line: Near the ground, and just wave a little in the wind I LIVE MY LIFE First Line: I live my life in growing orbits Last Line: Or a great song Subject(s): Men I WANT TO SPEAK UP, NO MORE THE WORRIED Last Line: And may the spirit, who takes it from my mouth, %turn it to good use for the eternal I WAS A CHILD I'M NOT SURE YET WHEN First Line: I'm not sure yet when Last Line: Is already talking with the earth I, 19 First Line: Though the world changes quickly Last Line: Over the land song alone %hallows and celebrates I, 2 First Line: And almost a girl it was who went forth Last Line: Where does she sink to out of me?...A girl almost I, 3 First Line: A god can do it. But tell me how a man Last Line: A breath about nothing. A blowing in the god. A wind I, 5 First Line: Erect no memorial. Just let the rose Last Line: And he obeys, in that he oversteps I, KNOWER First Line: I knower: possessing the secrets Last Line: Outward-resolved, as if breaking off with me IDOL First Line: God or goddess of the sleep of cats Last Line: Into its inwardly receding might IF YOU'D ATTEMPT THIS, HOWEVER: HAND IN HAND TO BE MINE Last Line: If you'd attempt this II, 13 First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as if it were behind Last Line: Add yourself, exulting, and strike the count IMAGINARY CAREER First Line: First a childhood, boundless and without Last Line: Then god plunged out of his hiding place IMPROVISATIONS OF THE CAPRISIAN WINTER First Line: Every day you stand there towering in the heart's Last Line: House what remains of the inconceivable, %as if it were ours IN IGNORANCE BEFORE THE HEAVENS OF MY LIFE Last Line: And not in apparent protection, pacified by what's %near IN THE CERTOSA First Line: Each member of the white brotherhood Last Line: For his flowers all bloom red IN THE SUN-ACCUSTOMED LANE Last Line: Shoulders, %or the pressure of your breasts IN THIS TOWN First Line: In this town the last house stands Last Line: And many perhaps die on the road INITIAL First Line: Out of infinite desires rise Last Line: They conme forth in these dancing tears INITIAL First Line: Let your beauty manifest itself Last Line: Comes at long last over everyone INSANE First Line: And they are silent INTERIOR PORTRAIT Poem Text First Line: You don't survive in me Last Line: To lose you a little less ISLAND First Line: The tide will blur what path there was, so as ISLAND First Line: The next high tide will wash away the mud flats' Last Line: Of the planets, suns, and galaxies JOSEPH'S SUSPICION First Line: And the angel, striving to explain Last Line: Heavy cap came off. Then he sang praise JOSEPH'S SUSPICION First Line: And the angel, taking some pains, told Subject(s): Christmas JOSEPH'S SUSPICION First Line: The angel spoke and tried to hold Last Line: Cap slowly off. And then sang praise JOSEPH'S SUSPICION First Line: The angel spoke and went to great trouble Last Line: Pushed off his cap. And sang in praise JUDITH'S RETURN First Line: Sleepers, the damp on my feet is still black, indistinct. Dew they Last Line: That will call, birdcall, before the locked-in city of fear JUST AS THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT Last Line: Is where god learns Subject(s): Men KING First Line: The king's sixteen years old Last Line: He's simply counting to seventy, slowly, %before he signs KNIGHT First Line: Rides in black steel the knight away Last Line: Then I ast last may stretch and sing %and play Subject(s): Death; Grail; Knights And Knighthood; Peace LACE First Line: Being human: term for a flickering possession Last Line: Soon %to smile and soar LACHRYMATORY First Line: Others carry the wine, others carry the oil Last Line: Made me brittle finally and made me empty LADY AT THE MIRROR First Line: Softly, she dissolves her tired comportment Last Line: Reflects the lights again, the dresser bureau, %and a sudden late hour's sorrow LADY BEFORE THE MIRROR First Line: At the mirror's surface she'll begin Last Line: And a late hour's undissolving lees LADY ON A BALCONY First Line: Clothed with the wind, light in the light LAMENT First Line: How far off all things seem Last Line: Stands at the end of the ray in the sky LAMENT First Line: How everything is far away Last Line: Stands at its light's end in the sky LAMENT First Line: To whom, heart, would you lament? Ever more avoided Last Line: By angels, themselves invisible LAMENT First Line: Aathing faur gone Last Line: Stauns at the end of that beam in the heivens Subject(s): Scottish Translations LAMENT First Line: All is far %and long gone by Last Line: Stands like a white city Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Lament; Solitude LANDSCAPE STOPPED HALFWAY Last Line: Warm, like bread LAST ENTRY First Line: Come, you last of those I will see Last Line: Don't confuse that first astonishment with this LAST EVENING First Line: And night and distant travel; for the train Subject(s): War LAST EVENING First Line: Night and the distant rumbling: for the train Last Line: Stood the black shako with the white death's - head Subject(s): War LAST JUDGMENT First Line: They will all as if out of a bath Last Line: Such is their belief: great and without grace LAST JUDGMENT First Line: Shocked as they were never shocked before Last Line: Gently, to see if it's worth anything LAST OF HIS LINE First Line: I have no paternal house Last Line: It is as if set down %upon a wave LAST SUPPER First Line: Amazed, bewildered, they are gathered round him Last Line: Like the still twilight hour, is everywhere LAST SUPPER First Line: They are assembled -- astonished, panicked Last Line: Like a twilight hour, is everywhere LAST SUPPER First Line: Astonished and upset, they are gathered Subject(s): Last Supper, The LAST SUPPER First Line: They are gathered, astounded and disturbed Subject(s): Holidays; Last Supper, The LEAVING THIRTIETH STREET STATION, PHILADELPHIA First Line: That an american bald eagle driven by its parents LEDA First Line: When he entered him, the god in his need Last Line: Then he first wore his plumage like a crown %and came to be truly swan in her womb LEDA First Line: When the god needing something, decided to become Last Line: And lying in her soft place he became a swan Subject(s): Men LEDA First Line: When the god in his need stepped across into it Last Line: And became really a swan in her lap LEDA First Line: When in his need the god surprised the swan Last Line: The god became a real swan in her lap LET'S STAY BY THE LAMP AND SAY LITTLE Last Line: Before power starts to stir LIKE THE PIGTAILS OF QUICKLY GROWN-UP GIRLS Last Line: She arouses over all the rest LONG AGO YOU MUST SUFFER First Line: Long ago you must suffer, knowing not what Last Line: Will ever talk you out of it LONG YOU MUST SUFFER First Line: Long you must suffer, not knowing what Last Line: And then you already almost love what you savor. No one %will talk it out of you again LOOKING UP FROM MY BOOK First Line: Looking up from my book, from the close countable lines Last Line: World in excess and earth sufficient LORD'S WORDS TO JOHN ON PATMOS First Line: Behold: (for no tree shall distract you) Last Line: What perishes takes place there first LOSS TOO IS OURS Last Line: Of one of the circles: they describe all around us %the holy form LOVE SONG First Line: How could I keep my soul so that it might Last Line: Sweet is the song LOVE SONG First Line: How might I keep my soul from touching yours? Last Line: How sweet the song! Subject(s): Love LOVE SONG, SELS. Subject(s): Love - Marital LOVERS First Line: See how in their veins all becomes spirit Last Line: So as to endure each other outright LULLABY First Line: Someday if I lose you Last Line: Of mint-balm and star-anise MADNESS First Line: She must always brood: I am I am Last Line: To dance in the city streets: dance MAGIC First Line: From indescribable transformation flash Last Line: Who calls for the invisible female dove MAGICIAN First Line: He calls it up. It startles into outline Last Line: Reads midnight. He's half this spell MAIDEN MELANCHOLY Poem Text First Line: A young knight comes into my mind Last Line: On some dear volume playing. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood MAN READING First Line: I've read long now. Since this afternoon Last Line: The first star is like the last house MAN WATCHING First Line: I can see that the storms are coming Last Line: By ever greater things MAN WATCHING First Line: I can tell by the way the trees beat Last Line: By constantly greater beings Subject(s): Men MARRIAGE AT CANA First Line: How could she not have been proud of him Last Line: Had become blood with this wine MARTYRS First Line: She is a martyr. And when crashing down Last Line: As if to easter, but with no wreath MARY AT PEACE WITH THE RISEN LORD First Line: What they experienced then: is it not Last Line: Farthest-reaching communion MARY'S VISITATION First Line: In those first days she moved lightly still Last Line: In her womb, for joy, to have him near MASTER, THERE'S SOMETHING NEW Last Line: Serve in all meekness MASTER, THERE'S SOMETHING NEW Last Line: Serve in all meekness MAUSOLEUM First Line: King's heart. Core of a high Last Line: Wind, %invisible, %wind's insideness MAUSOLEUM First Line: King's-heart. Kernel of a lofty Last Line: Invisible %wind-innerness MAUSOLEUM First Line: King's heart. Seed of a tall Last Line: : wind, %invisible, %inner wind MEMORY First Line: And you wait, await the one thing Last Line: Of a vanished year MIRRORS: NO ONE HAS YET DISTILLED WITH Last Line: Narcissus, released into lucency MOMENT BETWEEN MASKS First Line: As long as we stayed in closed rooms Last Line: The mask of greenery it completes MOONLIT NIGHT First Line: Path in the garden, deep as a long drink Last Line: Hands of the winds transpose to your near countenance %the r MOONLIT NIGHT First Line: Path in the garden deep as the draught of a long drink Last Line: The hands of the wind touch %your near face with the farthest night Subject(s): Moon MORE UNCONCEALED THE LAND First Line: More unconcealed the land: returning is on every road Last Line: Make it all the more deeply ours in forsaken space MORE UNCOVERED THE LAND: ON EVERY WAY IS HOMETURNING Last Line: So that it belongs intimately to us in the abandoned space MUSIC First Line: Take me by the hand Last Line: But so much music wounded me MUSIC First Line: What do you play, boy? It went through the gardens Last Line: When I shall call it to the deep delights MUSIC First Line: She who sleeps - to be so very awake Last Line: You more than us - from every wherefore %freed MUZOT, JUNE 1924 First Line: Do you still remember, the shooting stars Last Line: As if it had survived them, and was whole MY SHY MOONSHADOW First Line: My shy moonshadow would like to speak Last Line: I've given birth to both NARCISSUS Poem Text First Line: Encircled by her arms as by a shell Last Line: Surface, does it hope to renew a center NARCISSUS [1] First Line: Narcissus vanished. His beauty gave off Last Line: And self-annulled and could exist no more NARCISSUS [II] First Line: And so this: this exits me and breaks loose Last Line: I could think that I am deadly NEIGHBOR First Line: Strange violin, are you following me? NEIGHBOR First Line: Strange violin, do you follow me? Last Line: Than the weight of all things NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: 1. THE PARKS First Line: Irresistibly the parks arise Last Line: Gracious, stately, purple, ostentatious NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: 7. THE PARKS First Line: But there are shells in which the naiads' Last Line: Everything were destroyed and blotted out NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: DON JUAN'S CHILDHOOD First Line: In his slim body was the implicit bow Last Line: Which marveled at him and left him strangely torn NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: FADED First Line: Lightly, as after her death Last Line: Girl is yet living there NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: LADY ON A BALCONY First Line: Swiftly she comes forth, wrapped in the wind Last Line: The dark row of the roofs NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: LEDA First Line: When the god in his need advanced toward Last Line: And verily became swan in her lap NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: ONE OF THE OLD ONES First Line: Often in the evening (you know what?) Last Line: In a picked - up piece of paper NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: PIANO PRACTICE First Line: Summer buzzes through the drowsy mood Last Line: The fragrance hurts NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: ROMAN CAMPAGNA First Line: Out of the cluttered city which would rather Last Line: For his small emptiness theirs which survive him NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE ALCHEMIST First Line: Smiling derisively, the chemist thrust Last Line: Only this gold crumb he already had NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE BUDDHA IN THE GLORY First Line: Center of centers, of all seeds the germ Last Line: Something which longer than the suns shall burn NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE CHILD First Line: Without intending it, they watch his play Last Line: Until his time shall come NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE FLAMINGOS First Line: Like mirrored images by fragonard Last Line: Themselves and soar imaginary skies NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE INSANE First Line: They are silent because the division walls Last Line: Grows ever larger, never to be lost NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE LUTE First Line: I am the lute, and if you wish to write Last Line: Until at last my being was in her NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE SCARAB First Line: Are not the constellations here already? Last Line: Beneath its cradling weight NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE SOLITARY First Line: No! A tower shall arise from my heart Last Line: Shall force it to a yet more blessed fate NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: TORSO OF AN ARCHAIC APOLLO First Line: Never will we know his fabulous head Last Line: That does not see you you must change your life NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: A WOMAN'S FATE First Line: Even as a king out hunting seized a glass Last Line: And was not prized and never rare on earth NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: BEFORE THE SUMMER RAIN First Line: Suddenly in the park from all the green Last Line: In which one felt so frightened, as a child NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: BLUE HYDRANGEAS First Line: Like the last green in the palette's colors Last Line: The pathetic blue rejoices in the green NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: EARLY APOLLO First Line: As, many times between the leafless limbs Last Line: As if his song were being transfused in him NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: OBLATION First Line: Oh, how my body blooms from every vein Last Line: The altar which your breasts have lightly crowned NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: ROMAN SARCOPHAGI First Line: But what prevents us from believing that Last Line: Which glitters there and goes and gleams again NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: SPANISH DANCER First Line: As in the hand a match glows, swiftly white Last Line: She tramples it to death with small, firm feet NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE BUDDHA First Line: As if he listened. Silence, far and far Last Line: Who knows what is withdrawn beyond our fate NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE COURTESAN First Line: The sun of venice will prepare Last Line: Are ruined on my mouth, as if by poison NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE GAZELLE First Line: Enchanted one: how shall two chosen words Last Line: With the lake's shine on her averted face NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE MERRY-GO-ROUND First Line: Under the roof and the roof's shadow turns Last Line: Vanishes in this blind and breathless game NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE PANTHER First Line: His sight from ever gazing through the bars Last Line: Into the heart and ceases and is still NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE STEPS OF THE ORANGERY First Line: Like worn - out kings who finally slowly stride Last Line: Nor even dare to bear the heavy train NEUE GEDICHTE: ERSTER TEIL: THE SWAN First Line: This misery that through the still - undone Last Line: Serenely on in his majestic way NEVER MIND, ONE DAY Last Line: Weeping for joy %quietly overflow NIGHT WATCHES OF SISTER GODELIEVE, SELS First Line: That night an old man died on her Last Line: Men close by with their eyes open NIGHT. OH YOU FACE AGAINST MY FACE Last Line: I dare exist in you NINTH ELEGY First Line: Why, if our time on earth could be Last Line: Becomes less....Overabundant being %wells up in my heart NINTH ELEGY', FROM THE DUINESIAN ELEGIES First Line: Why if it is possible to pass the NO ONE SPEAKS OF THEM First Line: No one speaks of them, and yet Last Line: To shatter a tomb NO, I'M NOT GOING TO BE DESTROYED Last Line: On past darknesses and things NOW IT IS TIME THAT GODS First Line: Now it is time that gods stepped out Last Line: On all the cracks in our failures NOW IT IS TIME THE GODS STEPPED OUT Last Line: Through all the cracks of our failures NOW IT WOULD BE TIME THAT GODS SHOULD STEP OUT Last Line: On all the breaking-places of our failure NOW NOTHING CAN PREVENT ME Last Line: Escape from them, through the first agony %of a new birth? NOW THE STAG BECOMES PART OF EARTH First Line: Now the stag becomes part of earth. Lifts and holds Last Line: Stops just short of breaking into leaves NOW WE AWAKEN WITH MEMORIES Last Line: Sits silently nearby with its hair all undone NOW WE WAKE UP WITH OUR MEMORY Last Line: Sits silently beside us with loosened hair O BRIGHT GLEAM OF A SHY MIRROR IMAGE! Last Line: Your gaze reels, and darkens in accord O FOUNTAIN MOUTH, YOU MOUTH THAT CAN RESPOND Last Line: She'll only think you've interrupted her O MY FRIENDS First Line: O my friends, all of you, I renounce Last Line: As you lift your gaze towards my distracted heart Subject(s): Friendship O TELL US POET O TELL US POET WHAT DO YOU DO? - I PRAISE O THE CURVES OF MY LONGING THROUGH THE COSMOS Last Line: Apparatus for a short time trembling ODETTE R.... First Line: Tears, the most intensely felt, rise Last Line: In our riches, the mysterious loam more prized OF THE DEATH OF MARY First Line: The same great angel from whose lips she heard Last Line: Man, kneel down and look at me and sing OF THE MARRIAGE AT CANA First Line: Could she fail to take pride in this son Last Line: Turned, as this wine reddened, into blood OH HAVEN'T YOU KNOWN NIGHTS OF LOVE Last Line: Which remember, like a face? OH IN MY CHILDHOOD, GOD HOW EASY YOU WERE Last Line: As the way you use us, when you want to set us free OH, DELIGHT LEAPING UP EVER-NEW WHEN WE LOOSEN THE SOIL Last Line: And how much it always pays him to lend us OH, DELIGHT LEAPING UP EVER-NEW WHEN WE LOOSEN THE SOIL Last Line: And how much it always pays him to lend us OH, NOT TO BE EXCLUDED Last Line: Deep with the winds of return OH, TELL US, POET, WHAT YOU DO? Last Line: That I praise Variant Title(s): Oh, Tell Us, Poet, What You D ON THE DEATH OF MARY First Line: The same great angel who had once Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE EDGE OF NIGHT First Line: My room and this vastness Last Line: Abysses endlessly %falls ON THE MARRIAGE AT CANA First Line: How could she not take pride in him since he Last Line: Had turned to blood with this wine ON THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HEART CAST OUT TO DIE First Line: On the mountains of the heart cast out to die. Look, how small there Last Line: Unsheltered, here on the mountains of the heart ON THE SUNNY ROAD First Line: On the sunny road, within the hollow Last Line: Or upon your breats' responsive pressure ONCE I TOOK YOUR FACE INTO MY HANDS First Line: Once I took your face into %my hands. Moonlight fell on it Last Line: And to silence, that spendthrift ONE MUST DIE BECAUSE ONE HAS KNOW THEM Last Line: Terrors play in him as in trembling cages ONE OF THE OLD WOMEN First Line: Sometimes in the evening (you know how that is Last Line: In some piece of paper they've saved ONLY BY HIM WITH WHOSE LAYS Last Line: Lasting and pure ONLY BY HIM WITH WHOSE LAYS Last Line: Voices are rendered %lasting and pure ORANGES First Line: Wait. That taste, it's already bursting Last Line: With the juice that fills you with such joy! Subject(s): Oranges ORPHEUS, EURYDICE, HERMES First Line: This was the eerie mine of souls Last Line: Faltering, gentle, and without impatience ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES First Line: That was the so unfathomed mine of souls Last Line: Uncertain, gentle, and without impatience ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES First Line: That was the deep uncanny mine of souls Last Line: Her steps constricted by the trailing graveclothes, %uncertain, gentle, and without impatience Subject(s): Imagination; Vision ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES First Line: Here was the wondrous mine of souls Last Line: Uncertain, slowly, without impatience OUR LIFE-LONG NEIGHBOURS, FLOWER, VINE-LEAF, FRUIT Last Line: This middle-thing, made of dumb strength and kisses OVERFLOWING HEAVENS OF SQUANDERED STARS Last Line: Countenance dissolved in night makes room for yours PALM First Line: Palm, soft unmade bed Last Line: Of those brazen stars PALM OF THE HAND First Line: Hand's secret self. Sole, that has ceased to walk Last Line: Wanders and arrives in them, %fills them with arrival PANTHER First Line: His gaze those bars keep passing is so misted Last Line: And ends its being in the heart PANTHER First Line: From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted Last Line: Slips through the tightened silence of the shoulders, %reaches the heart and dies PANTHER First Line: From pacing past the barriers of his cage Last Line: And ceases where his being centers PANTHER First Line: The bars go by, and watching them his sight Last Line: Slips through the tightened limbs, and in the heart %ceases to be, like something that has died PANTHER First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars Last Line: Plunge into the heart and is gone Subject(s): Imagination; Panthers; Paris, France; Vision PANTHER First Line: From bending always over bars, hsi glance Last Line: And ceases in the heart to be PANTHER First Line: His gaze has grown so tired from the bars Last Line: And in the heart ceases to be PANTHER First Line: From bars forever going past, his gaze Last Line: An image enters, passes through the shoulders' tight-drawn %stillness to the heart, and dies PARKS: II First Line: Gently gripped by the Last Line: That listen, you don't stir Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening PARKS: VII First Line: But there are bowls in which the naiads' Last Line: Instantly annihilated and erased Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening PARTING First Line: How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part' Last Line: Some perching cuckoo's hastily vacated PEARLS ROLL AWAY First Line: Pearls roll away. Ah, one of the strings broke Last Line: And I shall cease to be up to you. I grow old, or else chile PEOPLE AT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: The nights were not made for crowds, and they sever Last Line: And mean--they know not whom. PEOPLE AT NIGHT First Line: Nights are not made for crowds PERSEUS First Line: Son of the raining gold, secretly begotten Last Line: Before the rising tide PIANO PRACTICE First Line: The summer afternoon brings on a mood Last Line: As suddenly she finds their fragrance hurts PIETA Poem Text First Line: So once more, jesus, I behold your feet Last Line: Strangely together to our doom we go. PIETA First Line: Full is my woe now, speechlessly it all Last Line: Give birth to you PIETA First Line: Now is my misery full and namelessly Subject(s): Holidays PIETA First Line: And so I see your feet again, jesus Last Line: How we both wondrously perish PIETA First Line: Now my anguish is complete. It is unspeakable Last Line: Now I can no longer give you %birth PIGEONS First Line: The same old flights, the same old homecomings Last Line: Miraculously multiiplied by its mania to return PLAY THE DEATHS SWIFTLY THROUGH First Line: Play the deaths swiftly through, the single ones, and you will see Last Line: How it rounds in upon itself, the infinite stream of stars PLAY THE DEATHS, THE SINGLE ONES, QUICKLY Last Line: As it closes on itself the unending stream of stars POEMS PRAISE First Line: Life and death: they are one, at the core entwined Last Line: And throws himself into the purest flame POET PRAISES First Line: Wait - this tastes good - already it's in pursuit Last Line: With the juice which fills the fortunate thing POET SPEAKS OF PRAISING First Line: Oh speak, poet, what do you do Last Line: Know you like star and storm? %since I praise POET'S DEATH First Line: He lay. His high-propped face could only peer Last Line: Than broken fruit corrupting in the air POET'S DEATH First Line: He lay. His high-propped face could only peer Last Line: Than broken fruit corrupting in the air Subject(s): Mourning PONT DU CARROUSEL First Line: The blind man who stands on the bridge Last Line: Amid a surface-dwelling race PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A YOUNG MAN First Line: Dream in the eyes. The brow as in relation Last Line: In my more gradually fading hand PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A YOUNG MAN Poem Text First Line: In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel Last Line: In my more slowly disappearing hand Subject(s): Fathers PRAISE First Line: O poet, what do you do? I praise PRAISING THAT'S IT! AS A PRAISER AND BLESSER Last Line: Dishes of fruit for the dead to praise PRAISING, THAT'S IT! AS A PRAISER AND BLESSER Last Line: Dishes of fruit for the dead to praise PRAYER First Line: Night, still night, into which are woven Last Line: Do not branch differently in darkness PRELUDE First Line: Whoever you are: at evening step forward Last Line: And as your will takes in the sense of it, %tenderly your eyes let it go PRESAGING Poem Text First Line: I am like a flag unfurled in space Last Line: And thrust myself forth and am alone in the great storm. Subject(s): Selflessness; Solitude; Loneliness PRESENTATION OF MARY IN THE TEMPLE First Line: To grasp how she was then, try if you can Last Line: Pressing more hardly than the building's weight PRESENTATION OF MARY IN THE TEMPLE First Line: In order to grasp what she was like at the time Last Line: Higher than the hall, heavier than the house PRESENTIMENT First Line: Like a citadel flag on far off heights PRESENTIMENT First Line: I am like a flag surrounded by distances Last Line: In the great storm PRESENTIMENT First Line: Like a citadel flag on far off heights Last Line: -absolutely alone %in the great storm Subject(s): Great Lakes; Sailors And Sailing PROGRESS First Line: And again my inmost life rushes louder Last Line: My feeling sinks, as if it stood on fishes PROPHET First Line: Dilated by immense visions PUT OUT MY EYES: AND I SHALL SEE YOU, TOO QUAI DU ROSAIRE: BRUGES Poem Text First Line: These streets have such a tranquil, languid gait Last Line: Clusters of chimes in the far heavens hung. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium QUIETING OF MARY AT THE RESURRECTION First Line: What they felt at that moment isn't it Last Line: They began this season %of their ultimate intimacy QUIETING OF MARY WITH THE RESURRECTED ONE First Line: What they felt then: is it not Last Line: Their season %of ultimate communing QUINCES YELLOW FROM THEIR GRAY FLUFF R.M.R. First Line: Rose, oh the pure contradiction Last Line: Under so many lids Subject(s): Mourning RAISE NO COMMEMORATING STONE. THE ROSES Last Line: In all his over-steppings he obeys RAISE NO COMMEMORATING STONE. THE ROSES Last Line: In all his over-steppings he obeys RAISING OF LAZARUS First Line: One had to bear with the majority Last Line: Life compelled to give it harbouring RAISING OF LAZARUS First Line: Yes, it was necessary for this common sort Last Line: The inexact vague life again accept it RAISING OF LAZARUS First Line: Evidently, this was needed. Because people need Last Line: Life made room for him once more READER First Line: I had read a long time. All afternoon REGARDING MY ANSWER I STILL DON'T KNOW Last Line: Already talking to the earth REMEMBRANCE Poem Text First Line: You wait, with memories drifting Last Line: With its grandeur and fear and prayer. REMEMBRANCE First Line: You wait, expecting one alone Last Line: Of pain and prayer and revelation REQUIEM First Line: An hour since, now, there is more on earth Last Line: Spirals in the wreath REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND First Line: I have my dead and I have let them go Last Line: As what is farthest sometimes helps me: within me REQUIEM ON THE DEATH OF A BOY First Line: What was the point of learning names Last Line: The ones who're drinking us, I have yet to %see REST ON THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT First Line: These, who late so breathlessly had flown Last Line: And they sat, as in a dream, beneath REST ON THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT First Line: Having just now flown, out of Last Line: Blossoming. And they sat as in a dream ROAD THAT TURNS AND PLAYS Last Line: Promised for next year ROMAN FOUNTAIN BORGHESE First Line: Two basins, one rising from the other Last Line: Gently smile from underneath with nuances Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy ROMAN SARCOPHAGI First Line: Why should we too, though, not anticipate Last Line: That mirrors now and moves and sparkles %through them Subject(s): Mourning ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS First Line: The terrible etruscan mater familias Last Line: From the imperial aqueducts ROSA FOETIDA First Line: I'm an imperfect thing Last Line: Like the air you breathe Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSA ODORATA First Line: I can't turn a smell Last Line: Of magnolia; eugenol, %a touch of cloves Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSA PIMPINELLIFOLIA First Line: O I'm leaning Last Line: You can sleep %inside my face Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSE WINDOW First Line: In there: the indolent tread of their paws Last Line: Heart %and tore it into god ROSE, O PURE CONTRADITION First Line: Rose, o pure contradiction, delight Last Line: In being no one's sleep under so many lids ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY Last Line: Of being no-one's sleep under so many lids Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Roses SAINT First Line: The nation was parched; and so the one Last Line: And her blood went rushing deep beneath her SAINT SEBASTIAN First Line: He stands like a man reclining-completely Last Line: The destroyers of beautiful things SECOND ELEGY First Line: Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas Last Line: In godlike bodies where more grandly it tempers itself SEE THE CAREFREE INSECT First Line: See the carefree insect, how it plays, its whole world Last Line: Whereas the mammal even as it suckles stares %all eye SELF-PORTRAIT First Line: The bone-build of the eyebrows has a mule's Last Line: Something in earnest labors to unroll SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 1 First Line: The rose-gatherer grasps suddenly Last Line: The gentle garden within her shrinks SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 2 First Line: Summer, which you so suddenly are, you're Last Line: As the angel intends it outright SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 3 First Line: We close a circle by means of our gazes Last Line: Withdrawn from the delightfully ravaged column SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 4 First Line: You don't know towers, with your diffidence Last Line: More feeling than I am quite SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 5 First Line: How the too ample space has weakened you and me Last Line: Sustains the vault, and more slowly subsides SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 6 First Line: To what are we near? To death, or that display Last Line: You, my stiff corpse again grows soft asleep SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 7 First Line: How I called you. This is the mute call Last Line: For you'll be hurled down when it waves on high SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES, SELS. SEVENTH ELEGY First Line: Wooing no more, not wooing, outgrown voice Last Line: As if to fend off and warn, %ungraspable one, wide open SHAKO First Line: Night, and its muffled creakings, as the wheels Last Line: Leans the black shako with its white death's-head SHARP CASTLE-BREAK First Line: Sharp castle-break, ancient underjaw Last Line: I waited: but not one stone shattered SICK CHILD First Line: With a slight turn of the head on the pillow Last Line: The beloved voices sounded like company SILENCE First Line: Listen, love, I lift my hands Last Line: Only her of whom I think: you %I cannot see SILENT FRIEND OF MANY DISTANCES First Line: Silent friend of many distances, feel Last Line: To the onrushing water say: I am SILENT FRIEND OF THOSE FAR FROM US, FEELING Last Line: Tell the running water: I exist SILENT HOUR First Line: Whoever weeps somewhere out in the world SINCE I WROTE YOU, SAP SPRANG FREE Last Line: In the feminine chalice? SING THOSE GARDENS, MY HEART, POURED AS INTO A GLASS Last Line: Feel that the whole, the praisable, carpet's intended SINGER SINGS BEFORE A CHILD OF PRINCES First Line: You pale child, each evening the singer Last Line: Stand all around your moving form SIXTH ELEGY First Line: Fig tree, for how long have I found meaning Last Line: Already turned away, he stood at the end of the smiles, %-different SMALL CLEMATIS TUMBLES Last Line: It picks autumn as accomplice SOLEMN HOUR First Line: Whoever weeps now anywhere out in the world Last Line: Dies without cause in the world %looks at me SOLEMN HOUR First Line: Wha noo greets onywhaur I the warld Last Line: Withoot cause dees I the warld %luiks at me Subject(s): Scottish Translations SOLITARY First Line: Like one who's voyaged over foreign oceans Last Line: Here they hold their breath out of shame SOLITUDE First Line: Solitude is like a rain Last Line: Then solitude flows with the rivers SOMETIMES A MAN First Line: Sometimes a man stands up during supper Last Line: Toward that same church, which he forgot SOMETIMES A MAN STANDS UP DURING SUPPER Last Line: Toward that same church, which he forgot Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer SOMEWHERE BLOOMS THE BLOSSOM OF PARTING AND BESTREWS Last Line: Even in the most-coming wind we breathe parting SOMEWHERE THE FLOWER OF FAREWELL BLOOMS First Line: Somewhere the floewr of farewell blooms and scatters Last Line: Even in the winds that reach us first we breathe farewell SON First Line: My father was a banished king Last Line: Ever-present holy groves SONG OF THE DRUNKARD First Line: I don't know what it was I wanted to hold onto Last Line: In the pile on the fucking table. So what the fuck SONG OF THE DWARF First Line: I think my soul is straight and good Last Line: And dogs will have none of it Subject(s): Dwarfs SONG OF THE STATUE First Line: Who is there who so loves me, that he Last Line: He who loved me most SONNETS TO ORPHEUS First Line: A tree ascended, o pure transcendence Last Line: Let him praise ring, vase, and silver heir-loom Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS First Line: O not till the time when flight Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS First Line: This is the animal that does not exist Last Line: And existed in the silver mirror, and in her SONNETS TO ORPHEUS First Line: A tree sprang into life. O clear transcendence! Last Line: To the onrushing water say: I am SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1 First Line: There arose a tree. Oh pure transcension! Last Line: You made for the beasts temples in the hearing Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1.14 First Line: We grow and care for flower, grape leaf, fruit Last Line: Ambiguous harvests, half mute strength, half kisses? SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1.15 First Line: Wait...Oh, what flavor...Already escaping Last Line: With the juices filling this joyful fruit SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1.5 First Line: Erect no marker for him. Let the rose Last Line: And this transgression is obedience SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 10 First Line: Antique sarcophagi, who have never Last Line: On the countenance of man Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 11 First Line: Look at the sky. Is there no constellation Last Line: The figure as a symbol. That's enough Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 12 First Line: Hail to the spirit that can unite us Last Line: Where seeds turn into summer. Earth bestows Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 13 First Line: Full-plumped apple, gooseberry and pear Last Line: Oh, experience, feeling, joy - how vast! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 14 First Line: We have to do with flower, grape leaf, fruit Last Line: This mongrel begotten of dumb strength and kisses? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 15 First Line: Wait...That tastes good...It flies away fast Last Line: With the juice that brims this happy thing! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 16 First Line: You, my friend, are so alone Last Line: Here. This is esau in his skin Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 17 First Line: The first, confused, the ancient Last Line: Shape as a lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 18 First Line: Master, you hear the new Last Line: And serve as a tool Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 19 First Line: Though the world change as fast Last Line: Hallows and praises Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2 First Line: She was almost a girl and forth she leaped Last Line: Does she sink from me - where?...A girl almost Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2. 29 First Line: Quiet friend of many distances, feel Last Line: To the swift water speak: I am SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.11 First Line: Many a calmly composed usage of death has evolved Last Line: Whatever might happen to us SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.20 First Line: Reaching from star to star, what spaces! Yet, much farther, still Last Line: The fishes' language, without them is spoken? SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.26 First Line: How it stirs us, the cry of the bird Last Line: The current that carries your head and your lyre SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.4 First Line: This is the nonexistent beast. They did Last Line: It was, within the mirror, within her SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 20 First Line: What shall I dedicate, master, say Last Line: His image I dedicate Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 21 First Line: Spring has come back again. The earth Last Line: Unruly stems she sings in a song Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 22 First Line: We are the drivers Last Line: The book and the flower Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 23 First Line: Oh, first when the flight Last Line: What he is flying alone Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 24 First Line: Should we disown our oldest friendships, part Last Line: Heavier. But we grow weak, like swimmers Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 25 First Line: Once more I will remember you whom I knew Last Line: It entered the desolate open gate Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 26 First Line: But you divine one, unto the last still singing Last Line: Among us, are we hearers and a mouth for nature Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 3 First Line: A god can do it. But how shall a man, say Last Line: A breath round nothing. A gust in the god. A wind Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 4 First Line: O you tender ones, sometimes walk Last Line: But the spaces ... But the windy air Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 5 First Line: Erect no monument. But let the roses Last Line: He is obedient, even when he transgresses Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 6 First Line: Does he belong here? No, from both Last Line: Let him praise bracelet, pitcher, and ring Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 7 First Line: Praising, that's it! One ordained to praise Last Line: Glorious fruit in golden bowls Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8 First Line: Only in the land of praise can lamentation Last Line: Against a sky her breathing does not trouble Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 8 First Line: Where praise already is is the only place grief Last Line: Into the sky, not troubled by her breath Subject(s): Men; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 9 First Line: Only whoso has raised Last Line: Eternal and pure Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1 Poem Text First Line: A tree ascended there. Oh pure transcendence Last Line: You built a temple deep inside their hearing Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1 First Line: A tree ascending there, o pure transcension Last Line: You built them temples in their sense of sound Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 10 Poem Text First Line: You who are close to my heart always Last Line: In the deep calm of the human face Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 11 First Line: Look at the sky. Are no two stars called 'rider' Last Line: For a moment. It is all we need Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 12 First Line: Hail to the god who joins us; for through him Last Line: Transmited into summer. The earth bestows Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 13 First Line: Plump apple, smooth banana, melon, peach Last Line: Oh knowledge,pleasure -- inexhaustible Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 14 First Line: We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit Last Line: This hybrid thing of speechless strength and kisses Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15 First Line: O fountain-mouth, o giving, o mouth that speaks Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15 First Line: Wait..., that tastes good...But already it's gone Last Line: And the juice that fills it with succulent joy Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 16 First Line: You are lonely, my friend, because you are Last Line: Here. This is esau beneath his pelt Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 17 First Line: At bottom the ancient one, gnarled root hidden deep Last Line: Top one bends finally %into a lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 18 First Line: Master, do you hear the new Last Line: Let it, desireless, %serve and remain Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 2 First Line: And it was almost a girl and came to be Last Line: Where is she vanishing?...A girl almost Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 20 First Line: But master, what gift shall I dedicate to you Last Line: His image: my gift Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 21 First Line: Spring has returned. The earth resembles Last Line: Difficult root, she sings, she sings Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Spring SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 22 First Line: We are the driving ones Last Line: Darkness and morning light, %flower and book Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 23 First Line: Not till the day when flight Last Line: Be what alone he flew Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 24 First Line: Shall we reject our primordial friendship, the sublime Last Line: Strength we have, like swimmers Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 25 First Line: But you now, dear girl, whom I loved Last Line: It entered the inconsolably open door Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26 First Line: How the cry of a bird can stir us Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26 First Line: But you, divine poet, you who sang on till the end Last Line: Have we become hearers now and a rescuing voice Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 29 First Line: Silent friend of many distances Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3 First Line: A god can do it. But will you tell me how Last Line: Nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind Subject(s): Imagination; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Vision SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3 First Line: A god has power. But can a mere man follow Last Line: A calm. A shudder in the god. A gale Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 36 Poem Text First Line: Though the world keeps changing its form Last Line: Only the song through the land %hallows and heals Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 4 Poem Text First Line: O you tender ones, walk now and then Last Line: Carry them now. But the winds - but the spaces Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 5 First Line: Erect no gravestone for him. Only this Last Line: And it is in overstepping that he obeys Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6 First Line: Does he belong here? No, out of both Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6 First Line: Is he someone who dwells in this single world? No Last Line: Let him praise finger-ring, bracelet, and jug Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 7 First Line: Praising is what matters! He was summoned for that Last Line: A bowl with ripe fruit worthy of praise Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 8 First Line: Only in the realm of praising should lament Last Line: Glittering, into the pure nocturnal sky Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9 First Line: Only one who has has lifted the lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9 First Line: Only he whose bright lyre Last Line: All voices become eternally mild Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1 First Line: Breath, you invisible poem! Pure Last Line: Roundness and leaf of my words Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 1 Poem Text First Line: Breathing: you invisible poem! Complete Last Line: Roundness, and leaf of my words Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10 First Line: All we have gained the machine threatens, as long Last Line: Builds in unusable space her deified temple Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 10 First Line: All we have won is threatened by the machine Last Line: Building her deified house in the useless space %of the sky Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 103 First Line: Does it really exist, time, the destroyer Last Line: Powers as a use of the gods Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11 First Line: Many calmly established rules of death have arisen Last Line: When the mind stays serene, whatever %happens to us is good Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 11 First Line: Many a quietly ordered rule of death now prevails Last Line: What happens to us is pure Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12 First Line: Will transformation. Oh be inspired for the flame Last Line: Wants you to change into wind Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 12 First Line: Will the transformation. Oh, be inspired by the burning Last Line: Feeling herself laurel, wills that you change to a wind Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 13 First Line: Keep ahead of all parting, as if it were behind Last Line: Add yourself joyously, and annul the amount Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14 First Line: Look at the flowers, so faithful to what is earthly Last Line: All those silent companions in the wind of the meadows Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 14 First Line: Look at the flowers, faithful to earth's ways Last Line: All the still brothers and sisters where meadowwinds blow Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15 First Line: O fountain-mouth, you generous, always-filled Last Line: Interrupting what she wants to say Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 15 First Line: O fountain-mouth, you giver, o you round Last Line: Under the flow, she thinks you interrupt Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 16 First Line: Always torn open by us again Last Line: The lamb begs for his bell Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17 First Line: Where, inside what forever blissfully Last Line: To disturb the enormous calm of those patient summers Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 17 First Line: Where, in what ever-happily watered garden Last Line: To disturb the serenity of these imperturbable summers? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18 First Line: Dancing girl: transformation Last Line: Quickly inscribed on the surface of its own turning Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 18 First Line: Dancer: o you translation Last Line: Swiftly in the texture of their own turning? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19 First Line: Somewhere gold lives, luxurious, inside the pampering bank Last Line: Audible only to the god Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 19 First Line: Somewhere lives gold in the indulgent bank Last Line: For only a god to hear Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2 First Line: Just as the master's genuine brushstroke Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 2 First Line: Even as a handy sheet of paper Last Line: Can sing the heart born into the whole Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20 First Line: In between stars, what distances; and Last Line: To speak in the language of fish Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 20 First Line: Between the stars, how far, and still much farther Last Line: There is something that might be language, %without speech? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21 First Line: Sing of the gardens, my heart, that you never saw; as if glass Last Line: Feel that the whole, the marvelous carpet is meant Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 21 First Line: Sing, my heart, the unknown gardens poured Last Line: Remember, a whole grand carpet is proposed Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22 First Line: Oh in spite of fate: the glorious overflowings Last Line: None perhaps is in vain. Yet only as thought Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 22 First Line: Oh, the splendid overflow, in spite of fate Last Line: None is in vain perhaps. But just as if thought Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23 First Line: Call me to the one among your moments Last Line: And sweet danger, ripening from within Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 23 First Line: Call me to one of your hours, the space Last Line: And the sweetness of danger that ripens Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24 First Line: Oh the delight, ever new, out of loosened soil Last Line: Andhow he must always profit when he lends us time Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 24 First Line: Oh, this pleasure, always new, from the loosened clay! Last Line: And how much he always gains when he puts us %on loan Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25 First Line: Already (listen!) you can hear the first Last Line: Every hour that goes by grows younger Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 25 First Line: Already, listen, you hear the first harrows Last Line: Each passing hour grows more young Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26 First Line: How deeply the cry of a bird can move us Last Line: Let their clear stream carry the head and the lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 26 First Line: We are stirred by a bird's cry Last Line: As a river bearing the head and the lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 27 First Line: Does it really exist, this destroyer, time? Last Line: Powers for divine uses Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28 First Line: Oh, come and go, you almost child, enhancing Last Line: Communion with your friend both feet and face Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28 First Line: Oh come and go. You, almost still a child Last Line: Body toward the perfect celebration Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 28 First Line: Oh, come and go. You, almost a child, complete Last Line: For once the whole and healing festival Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29 First Line: Silent friend of many distances, feel Last Line: To the flashing water say: I am Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 29 First Line: Still friend of many distances, feel yet Last Line: To the fleeting water speak: I am Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3 First Line: Mirrors: no one has ever known how Last Line: Narcissus penetrate, bright and unbound Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 3 First Line: Mirrors: still no one knowing has told Last Line: Narcissus forces his way at last Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4 First Line: Oh this beast is the one that never was Last Line: And was, inside the mirror and in her Variant Title(s): Unicorn; This Is The Creatur Subject(s): Animals; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Unicorns SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 4 First Line: Oh, this is the animal that never was Last Line: And was in the silver mirror and in her Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5 First Line: Flower-muscle that slowly opens back Last Line: Shall we at last be open and receivers Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 5 First Line: Flower-muscle of the anemone Last Line: Are we receivers finally unfurled? Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6 Poem Text First Line: Rose, you majesty -- once, to the ancients, you were Last Line: Which we prayed for from hours that belong to us Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 6 First Line: Roses, you on a throne, in antiquity Last Line: That we have begged from hours evocable Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7 First Line: Flowers, you who are kin to the hands that arrange Last Line: Relate you to those who in blossoming are your cousins Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 7 First Line: Flowers, finally to ordering hands related Last Line: With them who are your confederates in blooming Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 75 Poem Text First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were Last Line: Joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Religion SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8 First Line: You playmates of mine in the scattered parks of the city Last Line: Oh a vanishing one, stepped under the plummeting ball Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 8 First Line: You few playmates of childhood long ago Last Line: Ah, dying, who walked under the falling ball Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 81 First Line: Over and over by us torn in two Last Line: Because of a moer quiet instinct Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9 First Line: Don't boast, you judges, that you have dispensed with torture Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite union Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART, 9 First Line: Do not boast, you judges, of irons not clamped Last Line: Like a quietly playing child of an infinite conception Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 17 First Line: Where, in what ever-blissfully watered gardens, upon what trees Last Line: To disturb that even-tempered summer's repose Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: SECOND PART: 4 First Line: This is the creature there has never been Last Line: Within the silver mirror and in her Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SPANISH DANCER Poem Text First Line: As in one's hand a sulphur-match burns white Last Line: And stamps it out with little furious feet. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers SPANISH DANCER First Line: Like a white sulfur match in the hand Last Line: With a sweet, welcome smile she lifts her face %and with short firm steps she stamps it out SPANISH DANCER Poem Text First Line: As in the hand, a wooden match turns white Last Line: And stamps it out with small determined feet SPANISH TRILOGY First Line: From this cloud -- look: that so wildly covers Last Line: A flare grows steady. Death should %less darkly find its wa SPANISH TRILOGY First Line: From this cloud, look: so wildly concealing Last Line: Should have little trouble finding the way SPIRIT ARIEL First Line: Once long ago somewhere you freed him Last Line: With nothing but his own strength: 'which is most faint.' SPRING HAS RETURNED First Line: Spring has returned. The earth is Last Line: Difficult stems: she sings it. She sings Subject(s): Spring STARS BEHIND OLIVES First Line: Dear love, who fail to read so much aright Last Line: Grope after us and walk with our support STARTLE ME, MUSIC, WITH RHYTHMICAL FURY! Last Line: Oh, the she too doesn't exist, anywhere, will never be born,%she in whose absence you are withering STEP NOW AND THEN, YOU GENTLE-HEARTED Last Line: Ah, but the breezes...Ah, but the spaces STEP NOW AND THEN, YOU GENTLE-HEARTED Last Line: Ah, but the breezes...Ah, but the spaces STILL THE GOD REMAINS AN EVERY-GROWING Last Line: When it begs us for its bell STORM First Line: When the clouds, driven by storms Last Line: And the same flying %flees in them STRAINING SO HARD AGAINST THE STRENGTH OF NIGHT Last Line: The light arch of his equanimity STRONG STAR, WHICH NEEDS NOT THE HELP WHICH Last Line: With the pure descent STROPHES First Line: There's one who takes all people in his hand Last Line: Yet I hear many speaking evil of him SUMMER PASSER-BY First Line: Do you see that slowly walking, happy Last Line: She gathers the shade of her incandescence SUNSET First Line: Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors Last Line: So that, sometimes blocked in, sometimes reaching out, %one moment your life is a stone in you, and Subject(s): Night SWAN First Line: This laborious going on and on Last Line: More composedly, condescends to swim SWAN First Line: This laboring through what is still undone Last Line: In his full majesty and ever more %indifferent, he condescends to glide Subject(s): Birds; Swans SWAN First Line: The drudgery of trudging through things Last Line: And composed, consents to glide SWAN SWIMS ON THE WATER Last Line: Of happiness and doubt TEARS, TEARS THAT BREAK OUT OF ME Last Line: Cradle me, old man TELLING YOU ALL First Line: Telling you all would take too long Last Line: Transports himself somewhere else TENTH ELEGY First Line: Some day, emerging at last out of this fell insight Last Line: The emotion that almost startles %when happiness falls TENTH ELEGY First Line: O to be able, at the end of this grim realization Last Line: That almost over- %whelms us when happiness %falls Subject(s): Scottish Translations TENTH ELEGY First Line: May I, one day, emerging from this grim vision Last Line: That almost startles, %when a happy thing falls THAT WE LOSE NOTHING First Line: That we lose nothing, that even those Last Line: Have recourse, for even they, %the annihilators THAT WHICH OFFERS ITSELF TO US WITH STARLIGHT Last Line: Will night know you THE CAROUSEL; JARDIN DE LUXEMBOURG Poem Text First Line: A little while both roof and shadow turn Last Line: Briefly upon this blind and breathless game. Subject(s): Luxembourg Gardens, Paris; Merry-go-grounds; Carousels THE DUINO ELEGIES: 1 Poem Text First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE LAST SUPPER Poem Text First Line: Here they are gathered, wondering and deranged Last Line: Is everywhere, like dusk at fall of night. THE MONARCHS OF THE WORLD ARE OLD THE OLD WOMAN Poem Text First Line: White-faced friends in the midst of today Last Line: And shows old heirlooms of amazing stones. Subject(s): Old Age THE PANTHER Poem Text First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars THE YOUTH DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh, I should love to be like one of those Last Line: And still our horses rustle like the rain. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THESE SOFT Last Line: And I lie without a lover THINKING YOU First Line: Thinking you up my being burns more brightly Last Line: Are you coming from unopposable space THIRD ELEGY First Line: It's one thing to sing the beloved. Another, beware Last Line: Of the nights...... %hold him here THIS IS THE MUTE-MOUTHED MOUNTING OF THE PHALLI THOSE OF THE HOUSE OF COLONNA First Line: You far-off men, who stand now so motionless Last Line: Back then your faces burgeoned wide THREE HOLY KINGS First Line: Once long ago when at the desert's edge Last Line: And the valley of turquoise THREE HOLY KINGS First Line: Once long ago when at the desert's edge Last Line: And the valley of turquoise Subject(s): Christmas TIME AND AGAIN First Line: Time and again, however well we know the landscape of love Last Line: Between the flowers, face to face with the sky TITMOUSE First Line: O you, small heart that winters Last Line: We'll know the pleasure of tomorrow TO BENVENUTA First Line: Ah, I passed like a wind through their foliage Last Line: That now, at last, you're going to take me home TO DRINK THINGS DISSOLVED AND DILUTED Last Line: Instead of chewing on the kernel of reality TO HAVE COME THROUGH IT First Line: To have come through it: to have joyfully Last Line: Of the call. Awake and weakened TO HOLDERLIN First Line: Lingering, even with intimate things Last Line: For, oh, what affections, in space TO HOLDERLIN First Line: Lingering, even among what's most intimate Last Line: What inclination, awaiting us in space TO LOU ANDREAS-SALOME First Line: I held myself too open, I forgot Last Line: Gently, like moonlight on a window seat TO LOU ANDREAS-SALOME First Line: I kept myself immensely open, yet forgot Last Line: To me, like moonlight at a spot by the %window TO MONIQUE AND BLAISE BRIOD First Line: And by your fire and by lamplight Last Line: So much silence has collaborated here TO MUSIC First Line: Music breathing of statues. Perhaps Last Line: No longer to be lived in TO MUSIC First Line: Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps Last Line: No longer lived in TO SAY BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP First Line: I would like to sing someone to sleep Last Line: When something stirs in the dark TO THE AWAITED ONE First Line: ...Come when it's time. All this will have Last Line: And never self-terrified heart's blood %of such beloved things TO THE MOON First Line: Moon, svelte peson Last Line: Which I think suits your taste TOMBS OF THE HETAERAE First Line: In their long hair they lie Last Line: Grew into skies that closed nowhere TOMBS OF THE HETAERAE First Line: They lie in their long hair Last Line: Rose in a sky without end TRANSFORM STAMEN ON STAMEN Last Line: Fill your interior rose TRANSFORMATION Last Line: Uproar and parade in the ripening vine TRANSFORMED SPEAKS ONLY TO RELINQUISHERS Last Line: Holders-on are stranglers TRANSIENCE First Line: Driftsand of hours. Quietly continuous fading Last Line: So that its gazing head fully grasps us TSARS: 1 First Line: That was in days when the mountains came Last Line: In their being's deep twilight TSARS: 2 First Line: Great birds still threaten on all sides Last Line: And lay obediently at the elders' feet TSARS: 3 First Line: His servants feed with more and more Last Line: Who am I and who is he TSARS: 4 First Line: It is the hour when the empire vainly Last Line: And a blade has been unsheathed in dream TSARS: 5 First Line: The pale tsar will not die by the sword Last Line: In which all action's red turned pale TSARS: 6 First Line: Still in the surrounding silver-plating Last Line: And in the gleam of hanging lamps grew bright TURNING First Line: He had long won it through gazing Last Line: As yet never loved creation TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 1. MOONLIGHT NIGHT Poem Text First Line: South german night, spread out beneath the moon Last Line: A blonde-- Subject(s): Thoma, Hans (1839-1924) TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 2. THE KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The knight rides forth in blackest mail Last Line: And singing? Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Thoma, Hans (1839-1924) TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMAS ON HIS SIXTIETH BIRTHDAY First Line: South german night, bathed in august moonlight Last Line: So that I can finally stretch %and play %and sing Subject(s): Thoma, Hans (1839-1924) UNDERMOST HE, THE EARTH-BOUND Last Line: Curves, as it scales the top, into a lyre UNDERMOST HE, THE EARTH-BOUND Last Line: Into a lyre UNDETERRABLE First Line: Undeterrable, I'll complete this course Last Line: Of new birth might be escaped UNFINISHED ELEGY First Line: Don't let your fate change your mind Last Line: Are embarrassed for it UNICORN First Line: This is the animal that never existed UNICORN First Line: Oh this is the animal that never was Last Line: Looking at them calmly, with clear eyes Subject(s): Mythical Animals UNICORN, SELS. Subject(s): Unicorns UNKNOWING BEFORE THE HEAVENS OF MY LIFE Last Line: Seemingly protected, soothed by something near UNSTEADY SCALES OF LIFE Last Line: All of equanimity's weights, %gleaming, in order URNS, TANGLED FRUIT OF THE POPPY Last Line: We lose, the more VALLEY First Line: By day it is all very different Last Line: As if frightened by the roosters and the dogs VARIATION ON TO SAY TO GO TO SLEEP First Line: If I could I would sing you to sleep VASE PAINTING First Line: See how our cups penetrate each other Last Line: Is the dancer's step VASE PAINTING First Line: Notice how our cups penetrate each other Last Line: Is the dancer's step VENICE IN LATE AUTUMN First Line: The city now no longer drifts like bait Last Line: Takes the great wind, shining and charged with fate VISITATION OF MARY First Line: She still moved lightly at first Last Line: Already leaped with delight VOICES WARNED ME SO I DESISTED VOICES: THE SONG OF THE BEGGAR First Line: I go always from door to door Last Line: To put my head VOICES: THE SONG OF THE BLIND MAN First Line: I am blind, you out there, that is a curse Last Line: And that entices you to caring VOICES: THE SONG OF THE DRUNKARD First Line: It was not in me. It went out and in Last Line: And toss me away in the dung VOICES: THE SONG OF THE DWARF First Line: My soul may be straight and good Last Line: And the dogs couldn't care less VOICES: THE SONG OF THE IDIOT First Line: They don't stop me. They let me go Last Line: Friendly, a little vague %how nice VOICES: THE SONG OF THE LEPER First Line: Look, I am one whom all have abandoned Last Line: Animals I'll try not to frighten VOICES: THE SONG OF THE ORPHAN GIRL First Line: I am nobody and shall also be nobody Last Line: Now he loves nothing anymore VOICES: THE SONG OF THE SUICIDE First Line: All right now: just one last second more Last Line: I'll require a diet VOICES: THE SONG OF THE WIDOW Poem Text First Line: In the beginning life was good to me Last Line: And left me standing open Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage VOICES: TITLE LEAF First Line: The rich and the fortunate can well keep quiet Last Line: Whenever these maimed ones bother him WAIT First Line: It is life in slow motion Last Line: Made imaginary by this stop WALK First Line: Already my gaze is on the hill, that sunlit one Last Line: But we feel only the opposing wind WALK Poem Text First Line: My eyes already touch the sunny hill Last Line: But what we feel is the wind in our faces Subject(s): Men WALK First Line: My eyes already touch that hill, sun-gold WALK AT NIGHT First Line: Nothing is like something else. What is not wholly Last Line: Parts among the stars. How they urge us on WASHING THE CORPSE First Line: They'd gotten used to him. But Last Line: Lay there, nude and immaculate, giving the orders WATER LILY First Line: My whole life is mine, but whoever says so Last Line: I attract the beyonds of mirrors WAY IN First Line: Whoever you are; some evening take a step Last Line: In the same moment that your will grasps it, %your eyes, feeling its subtlety, will leave it Subject(s): Imagination; Vision WAY THAT BRIGHT PLANET, THE MOON First Line: The way that bright planet, the moon, exalted, full of purpose Last Line: Ache more clearly for you WAY WATER SURFACES SILENTLY Last Line: To give you my ascending %changing face WE ARE ALL WORKMEN Poem Text First Line: We are all workmen: prentice, journeyman Last Line: God, you are vast. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers WE ARE JUST MOUTH Last Line: And then are being, change, and face WE ARE NOT TO KNOW WHY Last Line: Makes us familiar with it WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE SPEND Last Line: Of yesterday's great luck. And the goddess herself %always WE MUST DIE BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN THEM Last Line: Play inside him as though in quivering cages Subject(s): Men WE SAY RELEASE, AND RADIANCE, AND ROSES WE WAX FOR WANING Last Line: Blossom and book WE WAX FOR WANING Last Line: Blossom and book WE'RE DRAWN TO WHAT IS UNAWARE OF US Last Line: We live on, and we have done no harm WE'RE ONLY MOUTH First Line: We're only mouth. Who sings the distant heart Last Line: And then are being, transformation, visage WE, IN THE GRAPPLING NIGHTS Last Line: We are a plunging stone WE, IN THE STRUGGLING NIGHTS, FR. LAST POEMS WHAT BIRDS PLUNGE THROUGH First Line: What birds plunge through is not that intimate space Last Line: Of your renouncing does it rise as tree WHAT CAN SAY, WHEN I GO TO A WINDOW Last Line: Face isn't lifted, that longs for me now WHAT FIELDS ARE FRAGRANT AS YOUR HANDS Last Line: By my tender caresses now WHAT SURVIVES First Line: Who says that all must vanish Last Line: An angel wears it after you WHAT SURVIVES Poem Text First Line: Who says that all must vanish? Last Line: An angel wears it after you Subject(s): Mourning WHAT WILL YOU DO, GOD? Poem Text First Line: What will you do, god, when I die? Last Line: What will you do, god? I'm afeared. Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The WHEN THE CLOCKS STRIKE WHITE LILY First Line: White lily, just by dint of being Last Line: I preferred you among so many outlined joys WHOEVER GRASPS First Line: Whoever grasps the thousand contradictions of his life Last Line: Lifts him out of time on those compass legs WIDOW'S SONG First Line: In the beginning life was good to me WILD ROSEBUSH First Line: How it stands out against the darkenings Last Line: And unprotected and having all I need WILL I HAVE EXPRESSED IT BEFORE I LEAVE Last Line: Than this infatuated line WILL-O'-THE-WISPS First Line: We have an old obscure connection Last Line: And I have often watched myself go out %under my eyelid WIND THAT GRIPS THIS COUNTRY LIKE A CRAFTSMAN Last Line: To offer his work the bright mirror of space WOMAN GOING BLIND First Line: She sat just like the others sipping tea Last Line: She would no longer walk, but soar in flight WOMAN IN LOVE First Line: Yes I long for you. I glide Last Line: Who doesn't know what even yesterday I was WOMAN'S LAMENT: 1 First Line: And the last perhaps will not return Last Line: And I feel no one feeling me WOMAN'S LAMENT: 2 First Line: So like a door which won't stay closed Last Line: And the nightingale is not in vain WOOD POND, GENTLE, DEEP IN SELF-COMMUNION Last Line: Aren't delighting, from somewhere far off, inside %me WORDS OF THE LORD TO JOHN ON PATMOS First Line: Behold: (for no tree shall distract you) Last Line: In it the perishing proceeds WORKS IN TRANSLATION First Line: I am the one, nightingale, I, whom you sing Last Line: Cannot be avoided WORLD WAS IN THE FACE OF THE BELOVED -- Last Line: World, and as I drank I overflowed YOU ARE THE FUTURE First Line: You are the future, the immense morning sky Last Line: From a boat you are shore, from the shore a boat YOU ARE THE FUTURE First Line: You are the future, the great sunrise red Subject(s): Religion YOU DECLARE YOU KNOW LOVE'S NIGHTS? Last Line: Which recollect like open faces? YOU DON'T KNOW NIGHTS OF LOVE First Line: You don't know nights of love? Don't Last Line: That keep remembering like eyes YOU FEW, THE ONE-TIME SHARERS OF CHILDHOOD'S TREASURE Last Line: Pass, ah, fleetingly! Under the falling ball YOU FEW, THE ONE-TIME SHARERS OF CHILDHOOD'S TREASURE Last Line: Pass, ah, fleetingly! Under the falling ball YOU MUST MOURN FOR A LONG TIME Last Line: Will ever talk you out of it again YOU NEED NOT BE AFRAID, GOD First Line: You need not be afraid, god. They say: my Last Line: And growing ever sweeter, is its own Subject(s): God YOU THE BELOVED/LOST IN ADVANCE First Line: You the beloved %lost in advance, you the never-arrived Last Line: Yesterday, alone, at evening YOU WHO NEVER ARRIVED Poem Text Last Line: Yesterday, separate, in the evening Subject(s): Love YOU, NEIGHBOR GOD Poem Text First Line: You, neighbor god, if sometimes in the night Last Line: Apart from you are exiles, hopeless of return. |
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