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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: RILKE Matches Found: 1095 ...WHEN FROM THE MERCHANT'S HAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stills and soothes it with space's equanimity ...WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL, WHEN WILL IT BE ENOUGH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And we: listeners at last! The first human listeners 25-OCT, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auden called rilke Last Line: Myself, who am yet %only a baboon' ABANDONED IN THE MOUNTAINS OF THE HEART, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Here, exposed on the mountains of the heart ABOUT FOUNTAINS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly I know a lot about fountains Last Line: Passes over our scattered faces ADVENT STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are we always creating you, as rilke said Last Line: I am too imperfect to bear Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Rebirth AFTER A CONVERSATION ON RILKE, DARWIN, AND REMBRANDT'S ..., by SUSAN TICHY Poem Source First Line: Suzanne, in your room the vast worlds Last Line: Just dark cloth, the simple cloth, %and light he placed so wisely %on the beautiful wreck of his ski AFTER A DAY OF WIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: A lovely bas-relief of clouds AFTER APOLLO, by CLAUDIA M. WISCHNER Poem Source First Line: When rilke said, 'you must change your life,'- Last Line: A stranger, a hero, that light can bronze %and fill with the light of past legends AFTER READING RILKE'S ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by BERTHA ROGERS Poem Source First Line: Winter's last storm moves in and Last Line: You must remember yourself AFTER RILKE, by JIM CLARK Poem Source First Line: In what tree was the rising Last Line: Then suddenly a new rhythm! %and I knew it was her, waking AFTER RILKE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is the poverty of children shy with child Last Line: Still married to need and the needs of others AFTER RILKE (II, 28), by MAGGIE NELSON Poem Source First Line: Oh common gaze. Ersatz %august of taut fingers Last Line: There, in the back country of friends AFTER RILKE, OR IS THAT WHAT HE SAID, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: But if they, the endlessly dead AFTER SUCH LONG EXPERIENCE LET HOUSE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Out of the known figure AFTER THANKSGIVING, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: Lord, as rilke says, the year bears down toward winter, past Last Line: And the ways of the ice %will be narrow, delicate Subject(s): Winter AGAIN AND AGAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Among the old trees, lie down again and again %among the flowers, against the sky AGAIN, AGAIN!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And christ comes and washes her each day AH, ADRIFT IN THE AIR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And the belatedly open house %remains empty AH, AS WE PRAYED FOR HUMAN HELP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From winds of hometurning AH, NOT TO BE CUT OFF, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With winds of homecoming AH, NOT TO BE CUT OFF, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ALCESTIS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All my goodbyes are said. Many separations Last Line: These absences that make us act ALL MY GOODBYES ARE SAID. MANY SEPARATIONS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These absences that make us act ALL OF YOU UNDISTURBED CITIES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Small danger, and would find peace in the greatest dange of all ALMOST AS ON THE LAST DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, ... 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LAST POEMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ALSO TO AFFIRM EVEN RAPTURE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Like a thing AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: Cling to your knife Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; United States; America AMERICAN VARIATION ON HOW RILKE LOVED A PRINCESS AND GO TO STAY IN ..., by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said that underneath the surface Last Line: I was a good american poet Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; United States AND ALL NEVER-BELONGING BE YOURS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AND ALMOST MAIDEN-LIKE WAS WHAT DREW NEAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sinking to where from me?...Almost a maid AND ALMOST MAIDEN-LIKE WAS WHAT DREW NEAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sinking to where from me?...Almost a maid AND IT WAS ALMOST A GIRL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And she was like a slope with vines, heavily bearing Subject(s): Imagination; Vision AND WHERE IS HE?, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And where is he, the clear one, whose tone rings to us Last Line: The great evening star of poverty ANGEL ATRAPADO XXVI (DEAR RILKE), by JOHN YAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who among the many I am would answer me if I stalled out Last Line: Green blue flames rising toward the wind's coiled throat ANGELS, by ANDREW GREIG Poem Source First Line: Bred by wenders out of rilke Last Line: Mine %great winds beating ANGELS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all have mouths so tired, tired Last Line: In the dark book of origins ANGELS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all have tired mouths Last Line: In the dark book of the beginning ANNUNCIATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are not nearer god than we Last Line: You though are the tree ANNUNCIATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't just that an angel entered: realize Last Line: Then the angel sang his song ANNUNCIATION (WORDS OF THE ANGEL), by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are not nearer god than we Last Line: You, lady are the tree ANNUNCIATION TO MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel's entrance (you must realize) Last Line: Then he sang out and made his tidings known ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look up, friends. Men there by the fire Last Line: Of her ecstasy, guiding you ANNUNCIATION TO THE SHEPHERDS FROM ABOVE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 ANSWER TO THE RILKE QUESTION, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich denn aus der engel ANSWERING TO RILKE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT Poem Source First Line: Cramped by this indoor season -- it's beginning Last Line: Figuring out that much is a beginning Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights ANTICIPATE ALL FAREWELLS, AS WERE THEY BEHIND YOU, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Count yourself joyfully in and destroy the account ANTICIPATE ALL FAREWELLS, AS WERE THEY BEHIND YOU, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Count yourself joyfully in and destroy the account ANTISTROPHES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, women, that you are here on earth, that you Last Line: For the swarms of the solitary man APPREHENSION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot know his legendary head Subject(s): Apollo; Mythology - Classical; Statues ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We never knew his stupendous head Last Line: That doesn't see you. You must change your life ARCHAIC TORSO OF APOLLO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yourself like a spring, enclose yourself like a laurel ARRIVAL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 LEAVES SWEEP PAST, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister & joe & mistah rilke Last Line: Way up in the flying dust Subject(s): Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets AS LONG AS YOU CATCH SELF-THROWN THINGS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would launch itelf and flame into its spaces AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The god wishes to consult AS ONCE THE WINGED ENERGY OF DELIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion ASHANTI, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No vision of far-off countries Last Line: And with their fierce instincts all alone ASSAULT ME, MUSIC, WITH RHYTHMIC FURY!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She whose absence you parchingly endure AT MUZOT, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: In this land, rilke's country if you will Last Line: And he himself stood naked and disclosed AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as though strewed Last Line: In his great hands, tender ineffably. AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh gazing's tall tree, shedding lead on leaf Last Line: But a homesickness can't forget that tree AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as if from far off Last Line: With infinite softness in his hands AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves are falling, falling as from far Last Line: With endless softness, endlessly to land AUTUMN DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord: it is time Last Line: All restless, as the drifting fall-leaves stray. AUTUMN DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord: it is time. The summer was immense Last Line: The tree-lined streets, when the leaves are drifting AUTUMN DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord: it is time. The summer was immense Last Line: Restlessly, while the leaves are blowing AUTUMN DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, it is time. The summer was enormous Last Line: Wander restless, while dead leaves are blown AUTUMN EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind from the moon Last Line: Into the flickering city AUTUMN'S DAY, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke walks toward a dime. I saw Last Line: Wander restlessly when leaves are blown. Subject(s): Grasshoppers BANANA, ROUNDED APPLE, RUSSET PEAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O experience, feeling, joy, - celestial BANANA, ROUNDED APPLE, RUSSET PEAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: O experience, feeling, joy, - celestial BAUDELAIRE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet alone has made one the world Last Line: And even annihilation turns to world BE NOT AFRAID, GOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not afraid, god. They say: mine Last Line: And growing sweeter in its solitude. BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY NEAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hesitated at the door BECQUER AND RILKE MEET IN SEVILLE, by JOSE EMILIO PACHECO Poem Source First Line: Dark swallow, you have returned Last Line: Thus we live always: bidding farewell BEFORE A SUMMER RAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At once from all the greenness in the park Last Line: With all its lovely expectation and fear BEFORE SUMMER RAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All at once something Last Line: Afternoons you feared would never end Subject(s): Rain BEFORE THE PASSION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, willing this, you should not have been born Last Line: And you have suddenly turned nature round BEFORE THE PASSION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The vast surface rests BEGGAR'S SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nestled in the celstial motion, %a ghostly outline BEHIND THE INNOCENT TREES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nestled in the celestial motion, %a ghostly outline BEING, AND CONFINEMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If you cannot be everything: no longer this BEING-SILENT. WHO KEEPS INNERLY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Was the word to him made evident BELLS, by AARON FOGEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Engel ordnungen rings in rilke like a bell against the end of %its line Last Line: The place where it forced to stop, the wall where it is %forced to speak' Alternate Author Name(s): Dolot, Jim BESIDE THE ROAD USED TO SUN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The beautiful silence that they break BIRDS' VOICES ARE STARTING TO PRAISE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The beautiful silence they break BIRTH OF CHRIST, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you lacked simplicity, how then Last Line: But (as you will see): joy comes of him BIRTH OF CHRIST, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you had lacked the simplicity, how Last Line: But (you will see): he brings joy BIRTH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When his family moved to the suburbs Last Line: First one's a flat nose kike, he grinned BLANK JOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who did not come, wasn't she determined Last Line: I preferred you among so many outlined joys BLESSED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angels stand there, immense angels stand Last Line: And blesses us even if we barely lift it BLIND MAN'S SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am blind, you out there. That is a curse BLIND WOMAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You aren't afraid to speak of it Last Line: Doesn't find my eyes %I know BLUE HYDRANGEAS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like the last green in crucibles of dyes Last Line: A touching blue rejoicing in the green. BLUE HYDRANGEAS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These leaves are like the last vestige of green Last Line: A touching blue delights itself in green BLUE VIOLIN, by DORIS RADIN Poem Source First Line: Not the melancholy violin of rilke Last Line: Wound pillow gone and the handkerchief %wound in its winding sheet %I hear it still BODY WASHERS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had gotten used to him. But when Last Line: Lay bare and cleanly there and issued laws BODY'S CROSSROADS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live my life in circles that grow wide Subject(s): Immortality BOOK OF THE MONK'S LIFE, SELS., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BOWL OF ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anger, you've seen it flare up, seen two boys BOWL OF ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rondure and leaf of my phrases BREATHING, INVISIBLE POEM! THAT GREAT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rondure and leaf of my phrases BRIDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother body is poor...: then we'll have to be rich for him Last Line: Friendship is hard BUDDHA IN GLORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Unbrokenly through him. %his image: accept BUT WHAT SHALL I OFFER YOU, MASTER, SAY,, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Unbrokenly through him. %his image accept BY THE SUN-ACCUSTOMED STREET, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the sun-accustomed street, in the Last Line: Be it on the rapture of your breasts BY THE SUN-SURROUNDED ROAD,, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Be it on the pressure of your breasts CADET PICTURE OF MY FATHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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! CADET-PICTURE OF RILKE'S FATHER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's absence in the eyes. The brow's in touch Last Line: In my more slowly disappearing hand CALL ME TO YOUR LONELY MEETING-PLACES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of a peril ripening unseen CAT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The show cat: a soul conferring Last Line: Seem signed by magisterial misfortune CHANGE THOUGH THE WORLD MAY AS FAST, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hallowing and hailing CHANGE THOUGH THE WORLD MAY AS FAST, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hallowing and hailing CHARLES THE TWELFTH OF SWEDEN RIDES IN THE UKRAINE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kings in legends are like Last Line: And with the eyes of lovers CHEERFUL GIFT FROM THE CHILLIER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And as they happily maintain %going is song CHILD IN RED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes she walks thrugh the village in her little red dress Last Line: The little red dress will always seem right CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The school's long stream of time and tediousness Last Line: Oh, where, oh, where CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: School's long anxiety and time slips past Last Line: To where? To where? CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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], by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So ran the schoolday, full of time and stress CHRIST'S DESCENT INTO HELL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it was too much, he passed out Last Line: Stood there, without a railing, landlord of agony. %silent CLOSING PIECE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is great Last Line: Immersed in us CLOUDS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These laborers of rain, these heavy clouds Last Line: And closes herself on the unutterable COME WHEN YOU SHOULD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do not mix into this what early enthralled COME, YOU LAST THING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, you last thing, which I acknowledge Last Line: Don't mix those early marvels into this CONFIRMED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 CORONA: AGAINST RILKE, by JEFFREY SKINNER Poem Source First Line: If I were made better I'd like it more DANCER: YOU TRANSMUTATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Swiftly inscribed on the wall of your own swift turning DAS BUCH DER BILDER: 6. FROM A STORMY NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The leaves fall, fall as if from far away Last Line: Eternally in his hands' tenderness DAS BUCH DER BILDER: AUTUMN DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen for some time now Last Line: Of the sky lies heavily DAS BUCH DER BILDER: EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness was a richness in the room Last Line: Heavily through deep drifts of snow DAS BUCH DER BILDER: INITIATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, everything is far Last Line: In the sky at the end of the beam of light DAS BUCH DER BILDER: MADNESS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must ever brood: I am...I am... Last Line: Yes, dance in a city street! DAS BUCH DER BILDER: MEMORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you wait, awaiting the one Last Line: Of anguish and vision and prayer DAS BUCH DER BILDER: SOLEMN HOUR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who weeps now anywhere in the world Last Line: Looks at me DAS BUCH DER BILDER: SOLITUDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude is like a rain Last Line: Then solitude flows onward with the rivers DAS BUCH DER BILDER: STROPHES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They all have weary mouths Last Line: The leaves of the dark book of the beginning DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE KNIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The knight rides forth in sable mail Last Line: And sing %and play? DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE NEIGHBOR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange violin, are you following me? Last Line: Than the heaviness of all things? DAS BUCH DER BILDER: THE SOLITARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nobody and always will be Last Line: He doesn't love anything now DAVID, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh that the king might once more command me Last Line: That which he commanded DAVID SINGS FOR SAUL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King, do you hear how my strings Last Line: We'd almost make one circling star DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stands death, a bluish decoction Last Line: Not to forget you. To stand Subject(s): Death DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here stands death, a bluish distillate Last Line: Never to forget you. To stand DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There death stands, a bluish residue Last Line: Never to forget you. To stay standing DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death stands there, a bluish concoction Last Line: Not to forget this. To last! DEATH IS GREAT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography DEATH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: None of them were willing, just the dark Last Line: Earth, %hidden to us DEATH OF THE BELOVED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew death only from what all men say Subject(s): Immortality DEATH OF THE POET, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay. His propped-up countenance severe Subject(s): Death DEATH-EXPERIENCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We don't know anything about this passing on--it Last Line: We play life true, not thinking of applause DIVINE DISGRACE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We gamecup, into which the ball falls DO YOU STILL REMEMBER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Glorifying pitchers or bracelets or rings DOES HE BELONG HERE? NO, HIS SPREADING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Glorifying pitchers or bracelets or rings DOES IT EXIST, THOUGH, TIME THE DESTROYER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Powers a celestial need Subject(s): Troy DOG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there's the image of a world which glances Last Line: And yet renouncing: for he wouldn't be DOLL. TEMPTATION!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The loaded doll, which falls into the chasm DON JUAN'S CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his slenderness, already almost the decisive factor Last Line: Which admired him and moved him DOVE THAT VENTURED OUTSIDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Religion DU MUSST DEIN LEBEN ANDERN - RILKE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was once is still Subject(s): Conduct Of Life DUINO ELEGIES: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That someday at the close of this grim vision Last Line: When a joyous thing falls DUINO ELEGIES: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday, emerging at last from the violent insight Last Line: Whenever a happy thing falls Subject(s): Imagination; Vision DUINO ELEGIES: 10., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I some day, at the exit of grim understanding Last Line: When a happy thing falls DUINO ELEGIES: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every angel is terrible. And yet, alas Last Line: Wherein it tempers itself more loftily DUINO ELEGIES: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every angel is terrible. Still though, alas! DUINO ELEGIES: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is one thing to sing the beloved. Another, alas Last Line: The preponderance of the nights...Restrain him DUINO ELEGIES: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is one thing to sing the beloved Last Line: The heaviest night - %restrain him DUINO ELEGIES: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O trees of life, oh, when winterly? Last Line: Is past description DUINO ELEGIES: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But tell me. Who are these vagrants, these even a little Last Line: On the assuaged carpet? DUINO ELEGIES: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet who are they, tell me, the travellers, these a bit DUINO ELEGIES: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But tell me, who are they, these wanderers, even more Last Line: Genuinely smiling pair on the gratified carpet DUINO ELEGIES: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wooing no more, not wooing , but the voice sprung from it Last Line: You unseizable one, wide open DUINO ELEGIES: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let wooing be the nature of your cry anymore Last Line: Incomprehensible being, spread wide open DUINO ELEGIES: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing, voice that has outgrown Last Line: And warning, inapprehensible Subject(s): Longing; Religion DUINO ELEGIES: 7, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not wooing, no longer shall wooing Last Line: Ungraspable one, far above DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With full gaze the animal sees the open Last Line: Forever saying farewell DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all its eyes the creature-world beholds Last Line: We live our lives, for ever taking leave DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all their eyes, all creatures see Last Line: We live that way forever saying goodbye DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All other creatures look into the open Subject(s): Animals DUINO ELEGIES: 8, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all its eyes the natural world looks out Last Line: So we live here, forever taking leave DUINO ELEGIES: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, if it's possible to spend this span Last Line: Is welling up in my heart DUINO ELEGIES: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, when this span of life might be fleeted away Last Line: Supernumerous existence %wells up in my heart DUINO ELEGIES: 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As framing boughs, still leafless, can exhibit Last Line: Its singing were being gradually infused EARLY SPRING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harshness disappeared. Suddenly caring spreads itself Last Line: Visage in the empty tree EARLY SPRING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harshness gone. And sudden mitigation Last Line: Unexpectedly you find it, welling %upwards in the empty tree Subject(s): Nature EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FLIGHT, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Only when flight %no longer draws Last Line: And be his flight's end EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: STREAM, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: God is the place that always heals over Last Line: From its quietest instinct EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: THE DEAD, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Our business is with fruit and leaf and bloom Last Line: This hybrid thing-part brute force, part mute kiss? EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: THE FLOWERS, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Consider the flowers: true only to the earth Last Line: A meadow-brother, a breath inside the wind EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: THE MACHINE, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Do you hear the new, master? Last Line: Let them still: let them serve us EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: THE PASSING, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Be ahead of all departure; learn to act Last Line: The nothing of yourself, and clear the slate EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: THE SARCOPHAGI IN ...., by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: Old tombs, you never leave me long Last Line: That darkens every human face EIGHT VERSIONS FROM RILKE'S SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: UNICORN, by DON PATERSON Poem Source First Line: This is the animal that never was Last Line: Then one day walked out, and passed into her EIGHTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all its eyes the creature Last Line: So we live, forever taking our leave EIGHTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is with all its eyes that the creature sees Last Line: That way we live, forever taking leave ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the losses into the all, marina, the falling stars Last Line: Our own solitary course over the sleepless landscape ELEGY FOR RILKE, by DOUGLAS S JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: It is the only struggle Last Line: Walk in stark anoymity END OF AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen for some time Last Line: Relentlessly denying sky ENTELECHY (AFTER RILKE), by DOUGLAS S JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: As we meet in this garden Last Line: And then, fountainwise %rises, joyous, again ENTRANCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are: in the evening step out Last Line: Tenderly your eyes let it go ENTRANCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever you are: step out of doors tonight Last Line: Then close your eyes and gently set it free EPISTLE TO RILKE'S ANGEL, by ROBIN SCOFIELD Poem Source First Line: You call out to the one who walks on castle walls Last Line: What I thought when I saw the falling star EVA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simply she stands, by the cathedral portal EVE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the immense rise of the cathedral EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly he evening puts on the garments Last Line: Grows alternately stone in you and star EVENING IN SKANE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The park is high. And as out of a house Last Line: Distance as perhaps only birds know EVENING LOVE SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orfnamental clouds Last Line: With these black horizontals EVENING STAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One star in the dark pass of the houses EVERYTHING IS PLAY, AND YET PLAYS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography EXPERIENCE OF DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have no clues to this departed state EXPERIENCE OF DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 ..., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart Subject(s): Imagination; Vision EXTRATERRESTRIAL: A WEDDING FOR NINA AND JOHN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nina and john: there are spaceships circling above us Last Line: Who are they really? Maybe rilke was right. %maybe they're angels FADED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She carries her handkerchief, her gloves FAMILY RILKE, by DEBORA GREGER Poem Source First Line: Bluing and salt, the bay's eye brimmed Last Line: These blue-gray letters were his eyes FIFTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But who are they, tell me these itinerants, more Last Line: Truly smiling pair on the quietened %carpet? FIRE'S REFLECTION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection Last Line: By an overflowing heart FIRST ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I screamed out, would hear me among the hierarchies Last Line: The vibration that now enraptures, consoles, and helps us FIRST LETTER TO M, by STEPHEN GIBSON Poem Source First Line: What I do here in d.C. Is ride my bicycle as a messenger all day and when I Last Line: Poem I don't hate at the end of the month. But isn't this the lesson rilke taught us? That it might FLAMINGOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With all the subtle paints of fragonard Last Line: Stride into their imaginary world Subject(s): Birds FLAMINGOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these fragonard-like mirrorings Last Line: And stride off one by one into the imaginary FLAMINGOS; JARDIN DE PLANTES, PARIS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You to them once more, who blend with you %in their bloom FLOWERS, WHOSE KINSHIP WITH ORDERING HANDS WE ARE ABLE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You to them once more, who blend with you %in their bloom FOOTNOTE ON A GIFT, by JOHN MATTHIAS Poem Source First Line: My friend, your teacher, gives you rilke's elegies Last Line: You need not whisper to the city or yourself %a misconceived intransitive-subordinate FOR A FRIEND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No intellect, no ardour is redundant Last Line: The rhythm of some stoniness within FOR HANS CAROSSA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Losing also is ours; and even forgetting Last Line: Of these circles: they trace around us the unbroken figure FOR HANS CAROSSA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting FOR LORD, THE CROWDED CITIES BE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography FOR MAX PICARD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so we stand with mirrors Last Line: Only for this. But this repays FOR THE SAKE OF A SINGLE POEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Center, how you draw yourself out Last Line: Abundant rain of force FORGET, FORGET, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget, forget, and let us live now Last Line: And invest this world where %everything is lunar FOUNTAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want just one lesson, and it's yours Last Line: Return passes through your liquid leaping FOURTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O trees of life, when does your winter come? Last Line: This is beyond description FRAGMENT OF A RESURRECTION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like birds that get used to walking Last Line: In which all things change FROM A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark grew ripe like treasure in the room Last Line: And over the white keys went FROM A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkening was like treasures in the room Last Line: Traveled over the white keys FROM A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkening was like riches in the room Last Line: It went over the white keys FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights like these, the prison doors swing open Last Line: Hung with their long punishments %woods FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights like these, there is suddenly Last Line: Which plays as he fades FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights like these, as in days long past Last Line: By blind tortoises, which begin to stir FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights like these, the unhealable know Last Line: And: so he will celebrate that %he feels FROM A STORMY NIGHT: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night, stirred by burgeoning storms Last Line: For thousands of years FROM AN APRIL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the woods smell sweet Last Line: Into the brushwood's glimmering buds FROM CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 READING RILKE, THE FIRST ELEGY, by ROB STUART Poem Source First Line: When as children we pressed the snow Last Line: By their angels ringed %find themselves with laughter, winged FROM THE BACK OF THE ROOM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night. Oh you in depths dissolving Last Line: Earth, I dare in you to be FROM THE POEMS OF COUNT C.W., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erect no memorial stone. Let the rose Last Line: And he obeys while breaking all the bans FROM TIME TO TIME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And raised up and destroyed from far away FRUIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It climbed and climbed from earth invisibly Last Line: Back to the centre it outgrew FULL POWER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could we escape counters and strikers of hours Last Line: Animal steps into the mortal blow FURROW IN MY BRAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Over you and them FUTURE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The future: time's excuse Last Line: The absence that we are GARDEN, BY APPROACHING RAINS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gardens, by approaching rains almost tenderly darkened Last Line: Even in the lightest things we waken counterweight GAZELLE; GAZELLA DORCAS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 GEORGIA O'KEEFE'S BONES, by DANELIA WILD Poem Source First Line: I am reading rilke again Last Line: When I see myself %my bones %on her canvas GIRL'S MELANCHOLY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young knight comes to mind Last Line: On a favorite book GIRLS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others must travel long paths Last Line: Like foresight, that many look on you GIVE ME, OH EARTH, PURE UNMINGLING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All being suits itself GLIMPSE OF A CHILDHOOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: An aimless breath. A stirring in the god. A breeze GOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they confined him at attention Last Line: And fled the face of ciphers glaring down GOD IN THE MIDDLE AGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Stand hunched and pry him loose in tunnels GODS PERHAPS ARE STILL STRIDING ALONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Suddenly adheres itself %to its erected forms GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat just like the other ones at tea Subject(s): Blindness GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat at tea just like the others. First Last Line: Might not be walking any more, but flying GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Only a god could hear GOLDSMITH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly! Patience! I remind the wings GONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more for ears - tone Last Line: Our treason toward all - gong! GONG [II], by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No longer for ears...: sound Last Line: Our treason -- to everything...: gong GONG [I], by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound, no longer measurable Last Line: Were space maturing GRAVITY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Center, how you from all things living Last Line: As from a cloud suspended, %gravity's ample rain GRAY LOVE-SNAKES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray love-snakes I have startled Last Line: They lie on me now and digest %lumps of lust GREAT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I stare at you, stand at a window begun yesterday Last Line: Shed a smile and entered me GREAT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I, as one loved, already early learned Last Line: And their own pleasure superintend GROWING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In some summers there is so much fruit Last Line: As uselessly as the power of millennia GROWNUP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the bird whose wings came Last Line: Do I need to ask GUEST, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is the guest? I was in your circle Last Line: Equally distant from known and unknown HAIKU, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAIL, THE SPIRIT ABLE TO UNITE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAIL, THE SPIRIT ABLE TO UNITE!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into summer? Does not earth bestow HAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the little titmouse Last Line: Still has death enough %and held money HAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the tiny bird Last Line: There is still death enough %and was money HARK, THE EARLIEST HARROWS STRIVING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hours grow more eternally young HARK, THE EARLIEST HARROWS STRIVING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Hours grow more eternally young HAWTHORNE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hawthorne there: who would guess Last Line: You who had to have them in your room -- %so many flowers HE BOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As young meadows, flowerfilled, through Last Line: Sensual separation of its nosstrils.) (provisional) HEART'S SWING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's swing. O so securely fastened Last Line: Of the rounding, ever-reversing strength HER SMILE HAD BECOME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Inside the chosen case HERBSTTAG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the right time, lord. Summer is over Last Line: In the late streets, while the leaves stray down HOLY MEN, ALL, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke in religious mode Last Line: To the oxford book of modern verse Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Homosexuality HOW I READ RILKE, by BECKY BIRTHA Poem Source First Line: Upstairs at the co-op Last Line: To give me %who I am HOW IT THRILLS US, THE BIRD'S CLEAR CRY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: May bear on its waters the head and the lyre HOW IT THRILLS US, THE BIRD'S CLEAR CRY..., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: May bear on its waters the head and the lyre HOW SHOULD SUCH A BOOK, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And mysterious glow which doesn't die HUMAN BEINGS AT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in the treetops like a rising from the dead I HAVE MANY BROTHERS IN THE SOUTH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Near the ground, and just wave a little in the wind I LIVE MY LIFE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I live my life in growing orbits Last Line: Or a great song Subject(s): Men I REMEMBER RILKE, by DARA WIER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember rilke sopping wet Last Line: Her sensible wrist. I don't %truly remember much more about rilke I WANT TO KNOW HOW RILKE DID IT, by IONNA-VERONIKA WARWICK Poem Source First Line: Write poetry, I mean Last Line: The future would be more %advanced in matters of love I WANT TO SPEAK UP, NO MORE THE WORRIED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And may the spirit, who takes it from my mouth, %turn it to good use for the eternal I WAS A CHILD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I'M NOT SURE YET WHEN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not sure yet when Last Line: Is already talking with the earth I, 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world changes quickly Last Line: Over the land song alone %hallows and celebrates I, 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erect no memorial. Just let the rose Last Line: And he obeys, in that he oversteps I, KNOWER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knower: possessing the secrets Last Line: Outward-resolved, as if breaking off with me IDOL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: If you'd attempt this II, 13, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be ahead of all parting, as if it were behind Last Line: Add yourself, exulting, and strike the count IMAGINARY CAREER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First a childhood, boundless and without Last Line: Then god plunged out of his hiding place IMAGINING ANGELS: 1, by MARJORIE STELMACH Poem Source First Line: Rilke, the angels are stiff with years Last Line: I can only conclude the angels are older, %the angels are dying IMPROVISATIONS OF THE CAPRISIAN WINTER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And not in apparent protection, pacified by what's %near IN NORA'S HOUSE WITH RILKE'S APOLLO, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: He cannot his unheard skull Last Line: Just pending as the golden whistle and sand off all eyes IN RILKE'S PARIS, by SUSAN LUDVIGSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today I wake to his meditations %on the city. While he laments Last Line: The poet's dream-- %'the winged energy of delight.' IN THE BLACK FOREST BEFORE THE BIRTH OF RILKE, by CONRAD Poem Source First Line: Under her skirts of bark Last Line: The hidden pencils grow IN THE CERTOSA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each member of the white brotherhood Last Line: For his flowers all bloom red IN THE SUN-ACCUSTOMED LANE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Shoulders, %or the pressure of your breasts IN THIS TOWN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this town the last house stands Last Line: And many perhaps die on the road INDULGENCES, by MICHAEL+(2) HOGAN Poem Source First Line: Peaches so sweet this summer Last Line: In a book of rilke and cry softly. %and it will rain on the warm earth INITIAL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of infinite desires rise Last Line: They conme forth in these dancing tears INITIAL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let your beauty manifest itself Last Line: Comes at long last over everyone INSANE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they are silent INTERIOR PORTRAIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't survive in me Last Line: To lose you a little less ISLAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tide will blur what path there was, so as ISLAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The next high tide will wash away the mud flats' Last Line: Of the planets, suns, and galaxies IT WAS THAT LOVE OF LANGUAGE COMES KILLING IN PERFECT COMETS, by ROBYN EWING Poem Source First Line: Dear mr. Rilke, %it was Last Line: To my thrift store faton %to recover JOSEPH'S SUSPICION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the angel, striving to explain Last Line: Heavy cap came off. Then he sang praise JOSEPH'S SUSPICION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the angel, taking some pains, told Subject(s): Christmas JOSEPH'S SUSPICION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel spoke and tried to hold Last Line: Cap slowly off. And then sang praise JOSEPH'S SUSPICION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The angel spoke and went to great trouble Last Line: Pushed off his cap. And sang in praise JOURNEY TO MUZOT, by HILDA MORLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the mountain-landscape Last Line: What I am doubtful of %in rilke Alternate Author Name(s): Auerbach, Hilda; Wolpe, Stefan, Mrs. JUDITH'S RETURN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is where god learns Subject(s): Men JUST GUESSING: A LITTLE LECTURE ON AMBITION, by DAVID GRAHAM Poem Source First Line: Rainer maria rilke never worked a day Last Line: No: like you, like me, rilke was just guessing Subject(s): Education; English Language; Schools; Teaching And Teachers KING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's sixteen years old Last Line: He's simply counting to seventy, slowly, %before he signs KNIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being human: term for a flickering possession Last Line: Soon %to smile and soar LACHRYMATORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Others carry the wine, others carry the oil Last Line: Made me brittle finally and made me empty LADY AT THE MIRROR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the mirror's surface she'll begin Last Line: And a late hour's undissolving lees LADY ON A BALCONY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clothed with the wind, light in the light LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How far off all things seem Last Line: Stands at the end of the ray in the sky LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How everything is far away Last Line: Stands at its light's end in the sky LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To whom, heart, would you lament? Ever more avoided Last Line: By angels, themselves invisible LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aathing faur gone Last Line: Stauns at the end of that beam in the heivens Subject(s): Scottish Translations LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Warm, like bread LAST ENTRY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, you last of those I will see Last Line: Don't confuse that first astonishment with this LAST EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And night and distant travel; for the train Subject(s): War LAST EVENING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They will all as if out of a bath Last Line: Such is their belief: great and without grace LAST JUDGMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shocked as they were never shocked before Last Line: Gently, to see if it's worth anything LAST OF HIS LINE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no paternal house Last Line: It is as if set down %upon a wave LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amazed, bewildered, they are gathered round him Last Line: Like the still twilight hour, is everywhere LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are assembled -- astonished, panicked Last Line: Like a twilight hour, is everywhere LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Astonished and upset, they are gathered Subject(s): Last Supper, The LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are gathered, astounded and disturbed Subject(s): Holidays; Last Supper, The LEARNING HOW TO LOOK: RILKE & RODIN, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Source First Line: The tiny snails dripping from the underarms Last Line: And taking notes on learning how to look Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): Facades; Learning LEAVING THIRTIETH STREET STATION, PHILADELPHIA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That an american bald eagle driven by its parents LEDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the god in his need stepped across into it Last Line: And became really a swan in her lap LEDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in his need the god surprised the swan Last Line: The god became a real swan in her lap LEDA, RILKE, THE SWAN AND ME, by NINA NYHART Poem Source First Line: Here in my angry-corner Last Line: You don't come back from LET'S STAY BY THE LAMP AND SAY LITTLE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Before power starts to stir LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Poetry & Poets; Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the biographies of rilke, you get the feeling Last Line: Except if only, just for once, you could be him LETTER TO RAINER MARIA RILKE, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW Poem Source First Line: They are propping up your native prague LETTER TO RILKE FROM MARIA VON STRASSE, by ABBY NIEBAUER Poem Source First Line: Wednesday evening LIKE THE PIGTAILS OF QUICKLY GROWN-UP GIRLS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She arouses over all the rest LIMPER, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke writes of the expectation Last Line: Limp and will speak to me Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) LOCAL VISIONS: 2. GIVING WAY, by RUDY KIKEL Poem Source First Line: After our busy day, I post you Last Line: Only, this was not %waht rilke meant by guarding solitudes LONG AGO YOU MUST SUFFER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago you must suffer, knowing not what Last Line: Will ever talk you out of it LONG YOU MUST SUFFER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 LOOK, by KIM VAETH Poem Source First Line: Perhaps rilke is everything, even a woman Last Line: Our dark house, %rooms where truth hardly matters LOOKING UP FROM MY BOOK, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold: (for no tree shall distract you) Last Line: What perishes takes place there first LOSS TOO IS OURS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of one of the circles: they describe all around us %the holy form LOVE SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How could I keep my soul so that it might Last Line: Sweet is the song LOVE SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How might I keep my soul from touching yours? Last Line: How sweet the song! Subject(s): Love LOVE SONG, SELS., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love - Marital LOVERS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how in their veins all becomes spirit Last Line: So as to endure each other outright LULLABY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someday if I lose you Last Line: Of mint-balm and star-anise MADNESS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She must always brood: I am I am Last Line: To dance in the city streets: dance MAGIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From indescribable transformation flash Last Line: Who calls for the invisible female dove MAGICIAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He calls it up. It startles into outline Last Line: Reads midnight. He's half this spell MAIDEN MELANCHOLY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young knight comes into my mind Last Line: On some dear volume playing. Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood MAN READING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've read long now. Since this afternoon Last Line: The first star is like the last house MAN WATCHING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can see that the storms are coming Last Line: By ever greater things MAN WATCHING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can tell by the way the trees beat Last Line: By constantly greater beings Subject(s): Men MARRIAGE AT CANA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How could she not have been proud of him Last Line: Had become blood with this wine MARTYRS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What they experienced then: is it not Last Line: Farthest-reaching communion MARY'S VISITATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Serve in all meekness MASTER, THERE'S SOMETHING NEW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Serve in all meekness MAUSOLEUM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King's heart. Core of a high Last Line: Wind, %invisible, %wind's insideness MAUSOLEUM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King's-heart. Kernel of a lofty Last Line: Invisible %wind-innerness MAUSOLEUM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: King's heart. Seed of a tall Last Line: : wind, %invisible, %inner wind MEMORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you wait, await the one thing Last Line: Of a vanished year MIRROR GHAZAL, by DAVID YOUNG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke thought them gorgeous & self-containded as angels Last Line: Somewhere behind me, sparks toss & float on the wind MIRRORS: NO ONE HAS YET DISTILLED WITH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Narcissus, released into lucency MOMENT BETWEEN MASKS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as we stayed in closed rooms Last Line: The mask of greenery it completes MOONLIT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 ARGUMENT, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke, she said, don't you love rilke? Last Line: Grieg. Nothing changed. Nothing %ever changed. Nothing MORE UNCONCEALED THE LAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So that it belongs intimately to us in the abandoned space MUSIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take me by the hand Last Line: But so much music wounded me MUSIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What do you play, boy? It went through the gardens Last Line: When I shall call it to the deep delights MUSIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She who sleeps - to be so very awake Last Line: You more than us - from every wherefore %freed MUZOT, JUNE 1924, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you still remember, the shooting stars Last Line: As if it had survived them, and was whole MY SHY MOONSHADOW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My shy moonshadow would like to speak Last Line: I've given birth to both NARCISSUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Encircled by her arms as by a shell Last Line: Surface, does it hope to renew a center NARCISSUS [1], by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Narcissus vanished. His beauty gave off Last Line: And self-annulled and could exist no more NARCISSUS [II], by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so this: this exits me and breaks loose Last Line: I could think that I am deadly NEIGHBOR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange violin, are you following me? NEIGHBOR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange violin, do you follow me? Last Line: Than the weight of all things NEO BOY, by PATTI SMITH Poem Source First Line: The son of a neck %rilke %everything is shit Last Line: My eminent %epidemic %city of stars NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: 1. THE PARKS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Irresistibly the parks arise Last Line: Gracious, stately, purple, ostentatious NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: 7. THE PARKS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lightly, as after her death Last Line: Girl is yet living there NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: LADY ON A BALCONY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly she comes forth, wrapped in the wind Last Line: The dark row of the roofs NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: LEDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often in the evening (you know what?) Last Line: In a picked - up piece of paper NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: PIANO PRACTICE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer buzzes through the drowsy mood Last Line: The fragrance hurts NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: ROMAN CAMPAGNA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without intending it, they watch his play Last Line: Until his time shall come NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE FLAMINGOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mirrored images by fragonard Last Line: Themselves and soar imaginary skies NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE INSANE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are silent because the division walls Last Line: Grows ever larger, never to be lost NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE LUTE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are not the constellations here already? Last Line: Beneath its cradling weight NEUE GEDICHTE: ANDERER TEIL: THE SOLITARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This misery that through the still - undone Last Line: Serenely on in his majestic way NEVER MIND, ONE DAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Weeping for joy %quietly overflow NIGHT WALKS: 3, by JUDITH VOLLMER Poem Source First Line: Melancholy's like reading rilke: Last Line: If you can't sleep, get up NIGHT WATCHES OF SISTER GODELIEVE, SELS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I dare exist in you NINTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why if it is possible to pass the NO ONE SPEAKS OF THEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one speaks of them, and yet Last Line: To shatter a tomb NO RILKE, by CECILIA WOLOCH Poem Source First Line: No raving genius %two deaths inside a week a family Last Line: Remembering %remembering %the door the door the door NO, I'M NOT GOING TO BE DESTROYED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On past darknesses and things NOW IT IS TIME THAT GODS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through all the cracks of our failures NOW IT WOULD BE TIME THAT GODS SHOULD STEP OUT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On all the breaking-places of our failure NOW NOTHING CAN PREVENT ME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Escape from them, through the first agony %of a new birth? NOW THE STAG BECOMES PART OF EARTH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sits silently nearby with its hair all undone NOW WE WAKE UP WITH OUR MEMORY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Sits silently beside us with loosened hair O BRIGHT GLEAM OF A SHY MIRROR IMAGE!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Your gaze reels, and darkens in accord O FOUNTAIN MOUTH, YOU MOUTH THAT CAN RESPOND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She'll only think you've interrupted her O MY FRIENDS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O TELL US POET WHAT DO YOU DO? - I PRAISE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O THE CURVES OF MY LONGING THROUGH THE COSMOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Apparatus for a short time trembling OCTAVE ABOVE ELEGY 2, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: Your face assimilated into space Last Line: Rilke or pasternak, the intimations %suggesting decreased tension, loss %of polishing the yellow app ODETTE R...., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears, the most intensely felt, rise Last Line: In our riches, the mysterious loam more prized OF THE DEATH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which remember, like a face? OH IN MY CHILDHOOD, GOD HOW EASY YOU WERE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And how much it always pays him to lend us OH, DELIGHT LEAPING UP EVER-NEW WHEN WE LOOSEN THE SOIL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And how much it always pays him to lend us OH, NOT TO BE EXCLUDED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Deep with the winds of return OH, TELL US, POET, WHAT YOU DO?, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That I praise Variant Title(s): Oh, Tell Us, Poet, What You D ON READING RILKE, by JILL MCGRATH Poem Source First Line: The joy of silence Last Line: And gone ON SEEING SYLVIA PLATH WRITTEN ON A WALL, by SHARAN STRANGE Poem Source First Line: Thinking in rilke and stumbling along Last Line: Of libation, I cannot but chant poet's names ON THE DEATH OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same great angel who had once Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible ON THE EDGE OF NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room and this vastness Last Line: Abysses endlessly %falls ON THE MARRIAGE AT CANA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Terrors play in him as in trembling cages ONE OF THE OLD WOMEN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lasting and pure ONLY BY HIM WITH WHOSE LAYS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Voices are rendered %lasting and pure ORANGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This was the eerie mine of souls Last Line: Faltering, gentle, and without impatience ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was the so unfathomed mine of souls Last Line: Uncertain, gentle, and without impatience ORPHEUS. EURYDICE. HERMES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here was the wondrous mine of souls Last Line: Uncertain, slowly, without impatience OUR LIFE-LONG NEIGHBOURS, FLOWER, VINE-LEAF, FRUIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This middle-thing, made of dumb strength and kisses OVERFLOWING HEAVENS OF SQUANDERED STARS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Countenance dissolved in night makes room for yours PALM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Palm, soft unmade bed Last Line: Of those brazen stars PALM OF THE HAND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hand's secret self. Sole, that has ceased to walk Last Line: Wanders and arrives in them, %fills them with arrival PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His gaze those bars keep passing is so misted Last Line: And ends its being in the heart PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From pacing past the barriers of his cage Last Line: And ceases where his being centers PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From bending always over bars, hsi glance Last Line: And ceases in the heart to be PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His gaze has grown so tired from the bars Last Line: And in the heart ceases to be PANTHER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently gripped by the Last Line: That listen, you don't stir Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening PARKS: VII, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But there are bowls in which the naiads' Last Line: Instantly annihilated and erased Subject(s): Gardens And Gardening PARTING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part' Last Line: Some perching cuckoo's hastily vacated PEARLS ROLL AWAY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nights were not made for crowds, and they sever Last Line: And mean--they know not whom. PEOPLE AT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights are not made for crowds PEOPLE AT NIGHT (DERIVED FROM RILKE), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night that cuts between you and you Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) PEOPLE AT NIGHT (DERIVED FROM RILKE), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A night that cuts between you and you Last Line: No one Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) PERFECT AND THE PERFECTED, by EDWARD LOCKE Poem Source First Line: The panther, trapped silkenly in rilke's poem, %masterlinked Last Line: Even no truly imagined panther dares to prowl PERSEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of the raining gold, secretly begotten Last Line: Before the rising tide PIANO PRACTICE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer afternoon brings on a mood Last Line: As suddenly she finds their fragrance hurts PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So once more, jesus, I behold your feet Last Line: Strangely together to our doom we go. PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full is my woe now, speechlessly it all Last Line: Give birth to you PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is my misery full and namelessly Subject(s): Holidays PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so I see your feet again, jesus Last Line: How we both wondrously perish PIETA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now my anguish is complete. It is unspeakable Last Line: Now I can no longer give you %birth PIGEONS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old flights, the same old homecomings Last Line: Miraculously multiiplied by its mania to return PLAY THE DEATHS SWIFTLY THROUGH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As it closes on itself the unending stream of stars POEM ENDING WITH A STANZA BY RILKE, by THOMAS SWISS Poem Source First Line: Difficult, isn't it?, to love these high-topped Last Line: No one can touch and not kneel to and marvel POEM IN THE MANNER OF RAINER MARIA RILKE, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far are the moons of jupiter-yes how much farther Last Line: Hear a voice when there is no voice but silence? POEMS PRAISE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and death: they are one, at the core entwined Last Line: And throws himself into the purest flame POET PRAISES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh speak, poet, what do you do Last Line: Know you like star and storm? %since I praise POET'S DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay. His high-propped face could only peer Last Line: Than broken fruit corrupting in the air POET'S DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feel Last Line: In my more slowly disappearing hand Subject(s): Fathers PORTRAIT OF RILKE, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a picture of rilke PRAISE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poet, what do you do? I praise PRAISING THAT'S IT! AS A PRAISER AND BLESSER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dishes of fruit for the dead to praise PRAISING, THAT'S IT! AS A PRAISER AND BLESSER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Dishes of fruit for the dead to praise PRAYER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, still night, into which are woven Last Line: Do not branch differently in darkness PRELUDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In order to grasp what she was like at the time Last Line: Higher than the hall, heavier than the house PRESENTIMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a citadel flag on far off heights PRESENTIMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am like a flag surrounded by distances Last Line: In the great storm PRESENTIMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And again my inmost life rushes louder Last Line: My feeling sinks, as if it stood on fishes PROPHET, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dilated by immense visions PROTEUS, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: They were intense people, given to migraine Last Line: Their names are mozart, rilke -- proteus PUT OUT MY EYES: AND I SHALL SEE YOU, TOO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography QUAI DU ROSAIRE: BRUGES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These streets have such a tranquil, languid gait Last Line: Clusters of chimes in the far heavens hung. Subject(s): Bruges, Belgium QUESTIONS ABOUT RAINER MARIA RILKE, by RITA SIGNORELLI-PAPPAS Poem Source First Line: Why was his middle name maria Last Line: Abandoned garden house some sunday afternoon QUIETING OF MARY AT THE RESURRECTION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What they felt then: is it not Last Line: Their season %of ultimate communing QUINCES YELLOW FROM THEIR GRAY FLUFF, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography R.M.R., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, oh the pure contradiction Last Line: Under so many lids Subject(s): Mourning RAINER MARIA RILKE RETURNS FROM THE DEAD TO ADDRESS THE..., by JOHN ROBERT ENGMAN Poem Source First Line: Boys, these aches and pains will make us men Last Line: Who don't know what to make of what, who tremble and obey RAINER MARIA RILKE: BLACK CAT, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Despite its being invisible, a ghost has enough mass Last Line: Set in a lump of amber RAINER MARIA RILKE: THE UNICORN, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is the beast that has never actually been Last Line: Would it be bodied out in her, in her mirror's full length RAISE NO COMMEMORATING STONE. THE ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In all his over-steppings he obeys RAISE NO COMMEMORATING STONE. THE ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In all his over-steppings he obeys RAISING OF LAZARUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One had to bear with the majority Last Line: Life compelled to give it harbouring RAISING OF LAZARUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it was necessary for this common sort Last Line: The inexact vague life again accept it RAISING OF LAZARUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evidently, this was needed. Because people need Last Line: Life made room for him once more READER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had read a long time. All afternoon READING CORPSE-WASHING, by ALLEN HOEY Poem Source First Line: They grew accustomed to him, rilke wrote Last Line: Prematurely the laws they revealed RECITING RILKE WITH A FEVER, by MICHAEL MCIRVIN Poem Source First Line: It rattles into life %through my breath Last Line: The dreaming, sun-hungering skin %of the young REGARDING MY ANSWER I STILL DON'T KNOW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Already talking to the earth REMEMBRANCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wait, with memories drifting Last Line: With its grandeur and fear and prayer. REMEMBRANCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wait, expecting one alone Last Line: Of pain and prayer and revelation REQUIEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An hour since, now, there is more on earth Last Line: Spirals in the wreath REQUIEM AFTER RILKE, by BECKY GOULD GIBSON Poem Source First Line: Where are you now and have your hands Last Line: Tearing from the branch, %hands coming to rest REQUIEM FOR A FRIEND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the point of learning names Last Line: The ones who're drinking us, I have yet to %see REREADING RILKE, by KENNETH LINCOLN Poem Source First Line: This orpheus - so glorified - so REST ON THE FLIGHT INTO EGYPT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having just now flown, out of Last Line: Blossoming. And they sat as in a dream RILKE, by WAYNE BROWN Poem Source First Line: For seven years, eyesockets like caves Last Line: Crying in the teeth of the wind RILKE, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Source First Line: Rainer %maria Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom RILKE, by B. Z. NIDITCH Poem Source First Line: I know enough %I have enough Last Line: It's time to walk arm in arm %and forget the cure RILKE, by MICHAEL O'SIADHAIL Poem Source First Line: To have made music among the dark and gone Last Line: To say, to extol, to hymn, to sing, to praise RILKE, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: Brought to completion on the edge of space Last Line: And he %is read by a student somewhere %at a cafe table, imagining %not someone, but the arc of goin RILKE AND LOU, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, lou noticed the angels Last Line: That they were coming RILKE AND THE STOUT ANGEL, by ROBERT HILL LONG Poem Source First Line: I was then just an ordinary boy RILKE AS DOOR, by HOLLY PRADO Poem Source First Line: His chest thrilled, stretched against %god's breath. Poetry Last Line: To tell, he comes as great, incessant breakage RILKE AT THE HOTEL BIRON, by MARGARET HOLLEY Poem Source First Line: How little the photograph shows- his quilted jacket Last Line: Impossible stillness and breathe its invisible breath RILKE AT THE PIANO, by GERARD SMYTH Poem Source Last Line: On the far side of %moon river, monk's dream RILKE AT WORPSWEDE, by THOMAS SWISS Poem Source First Line: Past midnight the first morning air RILKE IN PARIS, by DON BOGEN Poem Source First Line: Elegance of streets and squares Last Line: The flutter of a leaf caught %precisely in the picture RILKE MESSAGE, by HUGH BERNARD FOX Poem Source First Line: My mother comes to my daughter's Last Line: Seeing it %whole RILKE ON THE CONVEYOR BELT AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL, by JAMES RAGAN Poem Source First Line: A rick of pages, it falls hardly noticed Last Line: With no intent or vision but destination RILKE SAYS THE NEW YEAR BRINGS THINGS THAT HAVE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even a dog is never lost in the same place Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Holidays; Nature; New Year; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) RILKE SKY, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: There are three layers of dusk Last Line: The angels are violins %for one hour Subject(s): Explorers; Imagination RILKE SPEAKS OF ANGELS, by SUSAN DONNELLY Poem Source First Line: Every angel is terrible' Subject(s): Art And Artists RILKE SURMISED, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God knows I never loved any, no, not her Last Line: I sailed by this one in stark weather of youth RILKE VARIATION, by EUGENE PENNISI Poem Source First Line: Flourished circa steel and torsos RILKE'S ANGELS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: At times it must be sad to be one of them Last Line: A terribly astonished breath Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Prayer; Wings RILKE'S ANGELS, by PAUL WEST Poem Source First Line: Barber of split hairs re-fusing at death Last Line: I am the western pall-bearer who guzzles rilke's angels RILKE'S APOLLO'S TORSO, by JOSHUA CLOVER Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: We cannot know his real sun versus Last Line: The ecstasy part is easy. You just change your life RILKE'S ARGUMENT WITH DON GIOVANNI, by ALAN WILLIAMSON Poem Source First Line: I never thought Last Line: Flung in the face of the echoing man of stone RILKE'S BLUE LAMP, by SANDRA STONE Poem Source First Line: Voyeur to their lighted rooms Last Line: Even now as I write Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926) RILKE'S CHILDHOOD, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What angel woke RILKE'S CITY, by BRETT AXEL Poem Source First Line: The faces in my ravaged city Last Line: Looks lovable, real, %human, and grateful to be alive RILKE'S EPITAPH, by THOMAS JAMES MERTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Pierced by an innocent RILKE'S FEAR OF DOGS, by JEFFREY HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Had less to do Last Line: Try as they might %to avoid his gaze RILKE'S FEET; 1, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Heart bowels hand head and o the breast Last Line: At length delivered a message %classified sensitive RILKE'S FEET; 10, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Rilke's feet Last Line: Once %too often RILKE'S FEET; 11, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Xenophon xenophon it were fit to include Last Line: To the horse hooves else %in the snow to their bellies they sank RILKE'S FEET; 12, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Can I speak to you now rilke Last Line: That ease %the gasps of joy from children's throats RILKE'S FEET; 2, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Perched in my tree as the light Last Line: Boiled the green to stone grey-- %1897: I had taken my shoes off... RILKE'S FEET; 3, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Sweetheart, lou Last Line: Standing %to be invented RILKE'S FEET; 4, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: This hot pursuant of Last Line: A projectile %in a catapult RILKE'S FEET; 5, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Or rilke had no feet at all Last Line: Where can he have put that cake? RILKE'S FEET; 6, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: More famous feet Last Line: Till troy falls to hexameters %and rilke's feet begin RILKE'S FEET; 7, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: A wicked one Last Line: Tightrope lines to every single organ RILKE'S FEET; 8, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Voice where are you now Last Line: In the grip of its twig deletions RILKE'S FEET; 9, by CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: Hands whose touch is thinking Last Line: Faintly at the tip %with repression's rose RILKE'S FLAG, by DONALD RYBURN Poem Source First Line: Your tenderness disturbs me Last Line: Waiting in silence for your %winds of summer RILKE'S LETTER FROM ROME, by STAR BLACK Poem Source First Line: Certainly you've missed this on your reading list, Last Line: Read it. It's good letter. Not as good as you, though. RILKE'S THIRD ELEGY, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's one thing to sing lovesongs. Another Last Line: Hold him back Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson RILKE'S WHITE HORSE, by EDWIN HONIG Poem Source First Line: I remember a day in spring, at evening, in russia Last Line: His heart waiting to be heard and understood. %now may this fable be his song forever RILKE, YOU GAVE GOD BACK TO ME, by HELGA SANDBURG Poem Source Last Line: Forever, god, needing my pity more than I need yours RILKE: EVENING, by OLIVER REYNOLDS Poem Source First Line: Like old retainers, trees Last Line: And the stone in you with the star ROAD THAT TURNS AND PLAYS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Promised for next year RODIN TO RILKE, by EMILY GROSHOLZ Poem Source First Line: That sensualist rodin, who used his mouth Last Line: Black, damp clay is my master now, he said; %you see how it stiffens, fires to a beautiful red ROMAN FOUNTAIN BORGHESE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The terrible etruscan mater familias Last Line: From the imperial aqueducts ROSA FOETIDA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm an imperfect thing Last Line: Like the air you breathe Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSA ODORATA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can't turn a smell Last Line: Of magnolia; eugenol, %a touch of cloves Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSA PIMPINELLIFOLIA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I'm leaning Last Line: You can sleep %inside my face Subject(s): Erotic Love ROSE WINDOW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In there: the indolent tread of their paws Last Line: Heart %and tore it into god ROSE, O PURE CONTRADITION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, o pure contradiction, delight Last Line: In being no one's sleep under so many lids ROSE, OH PURE CONTRADICTION, JOY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of being no-one's sleep under so many lids Subject(s): Flowers; Religion; Roses RULES AS RILKEAN RIFFS ON YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA'S KIT & CABOODLE, by MICHAEL L. JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Start in medias res Last Line: To your calling-or call %a psychotherapist SADNESS, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Rilke says sadness is the moment the future enters Last Line: We know each other through that unknown surprise Subject(s): Grief SAINT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nation was parched; and so the one Last Line: And her blood went rushing deep beneath her SAINT SEBASTIAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stands like a man reclining-completely Last Line: The destroyers of beautiful things SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE, by TOM ANDREWS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke: listen. I've written a poem for you Last Line: Rilke: oh. Actually, brown rolls sound pretty good about now SECOND ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every angel is terrifying. And yet, alas Last Line: In godlike bodies where more grandly it tempers itself SEE THE CAREFREE INSECT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bone-build of the eyebrows has a mule's Last Line: Something in earnest labors to unroll SEQUENCE OF 9 (1.), by BILL HERRON Poem Source First Line: 1. Rilke warned me that time would come Last Line: And the heart, %gnawed at by the rats of no vision SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose-gatherer grasps suddenly Last Line: The gentle garden within her shrinks SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer, which you so suddenly are, you're Last Line: As the angel intends it outright SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We close a circle by means of our gazes Last Line: Withdrawn from the delightfully ravaged column SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't know towers, with your diffidence Last Line: More feeling than I am quite SEVEN PHALLIC POEMS: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SEVENTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wooing no more, not wooing, outgrown voice Last Line: As if to fend off and warn, %ungraspable one, wide open SHAKO, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharp castle-break, ancient underjaw Last Line: I waited: but not one stone shattered SHIELD WITNESSES, by CLARK COOLIDGE Poem Source First Line: Rilke, give me your paw Last Line: What veers but nears. %you will not bear. I will not wait SICK CHILD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a slight turn of the head on the pillow Last Line: The beloved voices sounded like company SILENCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Tell the running water: I exist SILENT HOUR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever weeps somewhere out in the world SINCE I WROTE YOU, SAP SPRANG FREE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the feminine chalice? SING THOSE GARDENS, MY HEART, POURED AS INTO A GLASS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Feel that the whole, the praisable, carpet's intended SINGER SINGS BEFORE A CHILD OF PRINCES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You pale child, each evening the singer Last Line: Stand all around your moving form SIX SEEDS: 3, by JOSEPH DUEMER Poem Source First Line: Rilke says the poet %the human being must Last Line: In the alley & draining %the blood into a basin SIXTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It picks autumn as accomplice SOLEMN HOUR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever weeps now anywhere out in the world Last Line: Dies without cause in the world %looks at me SOLEMN HOUR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like one who's voyaged over foreign oceans Last Line: Here they hold their breath out of shame SOLITUDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Solitude is like a rain Last Line: Then solitude flows with the rivers SOMETIMES A MAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Toward that same church, which he forgot Subject(s): Fathers; Men; Prayer SOMEWHERE BLOOMS THE BLOSSOM OF PARTING AND BESTREWS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Even in the most-coming wind we breathe parting SOMEWHERE THE FLOWER OF FAREWELL BLOOMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere the floewr of farewell blooms and scatters Last Line: Even in the winds that reach us first we breathe farewell SON, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a banished king Last Line: Ever-present holy groves SONG OF THE DRUNKARD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is there who so loves me, that he Last Line: He who loved me most SONNET: 42. DIESES IST DAS TIER DAS EN NICHT GIBT (RILKE), by PAUL GOODMAN Poem Source First Line: Lose yourself of thoughts and fears SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O not till the time when flight Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the animal that does not exist Last Line: And existed in the silver mirror, and in her SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tree sprang into life. O clear transcendence! Last Line: To the onrushing water say: I am SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wait...Oh, what flavor...Already escaping Last Line: With the juices filling this joyful fruit SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 1.5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erect no marker for him. Let the rose Last Line: And this transgression is obedience SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 10, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Antique sarcophagi, who have never Last Line: On the countenance of man Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first, confused, the ancient Last Line: Shape as a lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 18, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master, you hear the new Last Line: And serve as a tool Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 19, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the world change as fast Last Line: Hallows and praises Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet friend of many distances, feel Last Line: To the swift water speak: I am SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.11, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a calmly composed usage of death has evolved Last Line: Whatever might happen to us SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 2.20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the nonexistent beast. They did Last Line: It was, within the mirror, within her SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 20, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I dedicate, master, say Last Line: His image I dedicate Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 21, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are the drivers Last Line: The book and the flower Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 23, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, first when the flight Last Line: What he is flying alone Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: 24, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only whoso has raised Last Line: Eternal and pure Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fountain-mouth, o giving, o mouth that speaks Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 15, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How the cry of a bird can stir us Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 26, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent friend of many distances Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does he belong here? No, out of both Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only one who has has lifted the lyre Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Orpheus SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: FIRST PART, 9, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the hand, a wooden match turns white Last Line: And stamps it out with small determined feet SPANISH TRILOGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this cloud, look: so wildly concealing Last Line: Should have little trouble finding the way SPIRIT ARIEL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once long ago somewhere you freed him Last Line: With nothing but his own strength: 'which is most faint.' SPRING HAS RETURNED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring has returned. The earth is Last Line: Difficult stems: she sings it. She sings Subject(s): Spring STARS BEHIND OLIVES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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!, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah, but the breezes...Ah, but the spaces STEP NOW AND THEN, YOU GENTLE-HEARTED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah, but the breezes...Ah, but the spaces STILL THE GOD REMAINS AN EVERY-GROWING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: When it begs us for its bell STORM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The light arch of his equanimity STROMATA: BOOK 2, by DAVID MILLER Poem Source First Line: Sitting beneath the almond tree in blossom Last Line: Many years that it was rilke who'd occupied the room STRONG STAR, WHICH NEEDS NOT THE HELP WHICH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the pure descent STROPHES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's one who takes all people in his hand Last Line: Yet I hear many speaking evil of him STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 1, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: You wake to light hardened by industry, wrung-out and harnessed to hold Last Line: The chimney smoke of small misfortunes STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 2, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: Early this morning your long letter, you write near the closed-down hotels Last Line: Nothing is cured by getting older STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 3, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: To a child a clock is a clock, a star a star. Seeing things as they are Last Line: Whose work begins where childhood ends: %a lifetime of perception STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 4, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: All morning the rain and a growing belief that the grey you trusted Last Line: For years of your life STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 5, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: It is october, 1907. In the salon d'automne cezanne has just died Last Line: That is what work is STUDY FOR A PORTRAIT (RILKE): 6, by NICOLE KRAUSS Poem Source First Line: And when for the last time you leave his paintings at the exhibition Last Line: Orpheus singing, for fear of losing your own portrait among them, %don't look back SUMMER PASSER-BY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you see that slowly walking, happy Last Line: She gathers the shade of her incandescence SUNSET, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This laborious going on and on Last Line: More composedly, condescends to swim SWAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The drudgery of trudging through things Last Line: And composed, consents to glide SWAN SWIMS ON THE WATER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of happiness and doubt TEARS, TEARS THAT BREAK OUT OF ME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Cradle me, old man TELLING YOU ALL, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Telling you all would take too long Last Line: Transports himself somewhere else TENTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day, emerging at last out of this fell insight Last Line: The emotion that almost startles %when happiness falls TENTH ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will night know you THE CAROUSEL; JARDIN DE LUXEMBOURG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' Subject(s): Imagination; Vision; Fancy THE INFINITE REASON, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke thought it was the human part Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Reason; Truth; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE LAST SUPPER, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE OLD WOMAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His vision, from the constantly passing bars THE YOUTH DREAMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I lie without a lover THINKING YOU, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking you up my being burns more brightly Last Line: Are you coming from unopposable space THIRD ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THOSE OF THE HOUSE OF COLONNA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You far-off men, who stand now so motionless Last Line: Back then your faces burgeoned wide THREE HOLY KINGS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once long ago when at the desert's edge Last Line: And the valley of turquoise THREE HOLY KINGS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once long ago when at the desert's edge Last Line: And the valley of turquoise Subject(s): Christmas TIME AND AGAIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O you, small heart that winters Last Line: We'll know the pleasure of tomorrow TO BENVENUTA, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Instead of chewing on the kernel of reality TO HAVE COME THROUGH IT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have come through it: to have joyfully Last Line: Of the call. Awake and weakened TO HOLDERLIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lingering, even with intimate things Last Line: For, oh, what affections, in space TO HOLDERLIN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lingering, even among what's most intimate Last Line: What inclination, awaiting us in space TO LOU ANDREAS-SALOME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I held myself too open, I forgot Last Line: Gently, like moonlight on a window seat TO LOU ANDREAS-SALOME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And by your fire and by lamplight Last Line: So much silence has collaborated here TO MUSIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music breathing of statues. Perhaps Last Line: No longer to be lived in TO MUSIC, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps Last Line: No longer lived in TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, / the boat Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology TO RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in dream, %the boat Last Line: Your silence was just such a song Subject(s): Christianity; Religion TO RILKE, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rilke, if you had known that I was trying Last Line: Once and for ever, rilke, but in oh a distant land Subject(s): Soldiers' Writings TO RILKE, by ANNIE REINER Poem Source First Line: Your eyes still order the world toward magic Last Line: They disappear %into our thoughts, %tamed, %but never having been quite visible %on the page TO SAY BEFORE GOING TO SLEEP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would like to sing someone to sleep Last Line: When something stirs in the dark TO THE AWAITED ONE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moon, svelte peson Last Line: Which I think suits your taste TOMBS OF THE HETAERAE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In their long hair they lie Last Line: Grew into skies that closed nowhere TOMBS OF THE HETAERAE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie in their long hair Last Line: Rose in a sky without end TRANSFORM STAMEN ON STAMEN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fill your interior rose TRANSFORMATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Uproar and parade in the ripening vine TRANSFORMED SPEAKS ONLY TO RELINQUISHERS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Holders-on are stranglers TRANSIENCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driftsand of hours. Quietly continuous fading Last Line: So that its gazing head fully grasps us TRANSLATING RILKE ELECTRONICALLY, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: We did not know its undreamt of head Last Line: Which does not see you. You must otherwise your life Subject(s): Stones TSARS: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was in days when the mountains came Last Line: In their being's deep twilight TSARS: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Great birds still threaten on all sides Last Line: And lay obediently at the elders' feet TSARS: 3, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His servants feed with more and more Last Line: Who am I and who is he TSARS: 4, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the hour when the empire vainly Last Line: And a blade has been unsheathed in dream TSARS: 5, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale tsar will not die by the sword Last Line: In which all action's red turned pale TSARS: 6, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the surrounding silver-plating Last Line: And in the gleam of hanging lamps grew bright TURNING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had long won it through gazing Last Line: As yet never loved creation TWO POEMS AFTER RILKE, SELS., by HEATHER MCHUGH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 1. MOONLIGHT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Curves, as it scales the top, into a lyre UNDERMOST HE, THE EARTH-BOUND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Into a lyre UNDETERRABLE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undeterrable, I'll complete this course Last Line: Of new birth might be escaped UNFINISHED ELEGY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't let your fate change your mind Last Line: Are embarrassed for it UNICORN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the animal that never existed UNICORN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Unicorns UNKNOWING BEFORE THE HEAVENS OF MY LIFE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Seemingly protected, soothed by something near UNSTEADY SCALES OF LIFE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All of equanimity's weights, %gleaming, in order URNS, TANGLED FRUIT OF THE POPPY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We lose, the more VACATION IN BOCA ISN'T RILKE, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: We're hanging out in our room at the sands hotel & casino beach Last Line: So far back in time that he saw trees rear up, not yet tame VALLEY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day it is all very different Last Line: As if frightened by the roosters and the dogs VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Subject(s): Christianity; Religion; Theology VARIATION AND REFLECTION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If just for once the swing of cause and effect Last Line: God's flight circles us Subject(s): Christianity; Religion VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All these images (said the old monk Last Line: Gives us clues to his mystery VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (1), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon, the end of a century. Is the great scroll VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (3), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With chips and shards, rubble of being VARIATION ON A THEME BY RILKE (THE BOOK OF HOURS, BK I, 1), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain day became a presence to me VARIATION ON TO SAY TO GO TO SLEEP, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could I would sing you to sleep VARIATIONS ON A THEME BY RILKE, by MARC J. SHEEHAN Poem Source First Line: Two crows circle %the old logging trail Last Line: And the whole lazarus-crew %frightened again by life VASE PAINTING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how our cups penetrate each other Last Line: Is the dancer's step VASE PAINTING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Notice how our cups penetrate each other Last Line: Is the dancer's step VENICE IN LATE AUTUMN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The city now no longer drifts like bait Last Line: Takes the great wind, shining and charged with fate VISITATION OF MARY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She still moved lightly at first Last Line: Already leaped with delight VOICES WARNED ME SO I DESISTED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography VOICES: THE SONG OF THE BEGGAR, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go always from door to door Last Line: To put my head VOICES: THE SONG OF THE BLIND MAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul may be straight and good Last Line: And the dogs couldn't care less VOICES: THE SONG OF THE IDIOT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am nobody and shall also be nobody Last Line: Now he loves nothing anymore VOICES: THE SONG OF THE SUICIDE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All right now: just one last second more Last Line: I'll require a diet VOICES: THE SONG OF THE WIDOW, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich and the fortunate can well keep quiet Last Line: Whenever these maimed ones bother him WAIT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is life in slow motion Last Line: Made imaginary by this stop WALK, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already my gaze is on the hill, that sunlit one Last Line: But we feel only the opposing wind WALK, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes already touch that hill, sun-gold WALK AT NIGHT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They'd gotten used to him. But Last Line: Lay there, nude and immaculate, giving the orders WATCHING RILKE WATCHING CEZANNE, by NORBERT HIRSCHHORN Poem Source First Line: Who could miss rilke Last Line: And a wounded animal howled along the far escarpment WATER LILY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My whole life is mine, but whoever says so Last Line: I attract the beyonds of mirrors WAY IN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way that bright planet, the moon, exalted, full of purpose Last Line: Ache more clearly for you WAY WATER SURFACES SILENTLY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To give you my ascending %changing face WE ARE ALL WORKMEN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are all workmen: prentice, journeyman Last Line: God, you are vast. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers WE ARE JUST MOUTH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then are being, change, and face WE ARE NOT TO KNOW WHY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Makes us familiar with it WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE SPEND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of yesterday's great luck. And the goddess herself %always WE MUST DIE BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN THEM, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Play inside him as though in quivering cages Subject(s): Men WE SAY RELEASE, AND RADIANCE, AND ROSES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WE WAX FOR WANING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blossom and book WE WAX FOR WANING, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Blossom and book WE'RE DRAWN TO WHAT IS UNAWARE OF US, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We live on, and we have done no harm WE'RE ONLY MOUTH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're only mouth. Who sings the distant heart Last Line: And then are being, transformation, visage WE, IN THE GRAPPLING NIGHTS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We are a plunging stone WE, IN THE STRUGGLING NIGHTS, FR. LAST POEMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHAT BIRDS PLUNGE THROUGH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Face isn't lifted, that longs for me now WHAT FIELDS ARE FRAGRANT AS YOUR HANDS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: By my tender caresses now WHAT SURVIVES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says that all must vanish Last Line: An angel wears it after you WHAT SURVIVES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says that all must vanish? Last Line: An angel wears it after you Subject(s): Mourning WHAT THE POET MUST KNOW, by OBE POSTMA Poem Source First Line: And if it should be that he didn't know the nights of which rilke spoke Last Line: There is still the mother who dispenses it always, %the soul, which embraces all generations Subject(s): Netherlands WHAT WILL YOU DO, GOD?, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHITE LILY, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White lily, just by dint of being Last Line: I preferred you among so many outlined joys WHOEVER GRASPS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever grasps the thousand contradictions of his life Last Line: Lifts him out of time on those compass legs WIDOW'S SONG, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning life was good to me WILD ROSEBUSH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than this infatuated line WILL-O'-THE-WISPS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To offer his work the bright mirror of space WOMAN GOING BLIND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat just like the others sipping tea Last Line: She would no longer walk, but soar in flight WOMAN IN LOVE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I long for you. I glide Last Line: Who doesn't know what even yesterday I was WOMAN'S LAMENT: 1, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the last perhaps will not return Last Line: And I feel no one feeling me WOMAN'S LAMENT: 2, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Aren't delighting, from somewhere far off, inside %me WORDS OF THE LORD TO JOHN ON PATMOS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold: (for no tree shall distract you) Last Line: In it the perishing proceeds WORKS IN TRANSLATION, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one, nightingale, I, whom you sing Last Line: Cannot be avoided WORLD WAS IN THE FACE OF THE BELOVED --, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: World, and as I drank I overflowed YOU ARE THE FUTURE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are the future, the great sunrise red Subject(s): Religion YOU CAN'T WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOP, by FANNY HOWE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator Last Line: Out. My personal angel is my maid, said one to another, putting %down his rilke with a gentle smile YOU CAN?ÇÖT WARM YOUR HANDS IN FRONT OF A BOOK BUT YOU CAN WARM YOUR HOPES THERE, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Feathers fluffed the ashtray bin at the bottom of the elevator. Feathers and a smeared Last Line: His rilke with a gentle smile Subject(s): City & Town Life YOU DECLARE YOU KNOW LOVE'S NIGHTS?, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which recollect like open faces? YOU DON'T KNOW NIGHTS OF LOVE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass, ah, fleetingly! Under the falling ball YOU FEW, THE ONE-TIME SHARERS OF CHILDHOOD'S TREASURE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pass, ah, fleetingly! Under the falling ball YOU MUST MOURN FOR A LONG TIME, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Will ever talk you out of it again YOU NEED NOT BE AFRAID, GOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You need not be afraid, god. They say: my Last Line: And growing ever sweeter, is its own Subject(s): God YOU OR ABOUT LOVE: 9, by MARIAN ODANGIU Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid it will be hard to recognize you Last Line: About the solitude %of the knight christopher rilke YOU THE BELOVED/LOST IN ADVANCE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You the beloved %lost in advance, you the never-arrived Last Line: Yesterday, alone, at evening YOU WHO NEVER ARRIVED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Yesterday, separate, in the evening Subject(s): Love YOU, NEIGHBOR GOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, neighbor god, if sometimes in the night Last Line: Apart from you are exiles, hopeless of return. |
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