Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, REFLECTIONS, by WILHELM KLEMM


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First Line: Trees in silent green stand satiate
Last Line: Where evening goes home, a tardy dreamer.


Trees in silent green stand satiate.
And heaven darkens to a forgotten grey.
The endlessness of the grass
Triumphs in a thousand little blades.

What did we really love best?
The virtues have long since paled beneath the shrugged shoulders
Of the understanding. Fame is so frail,
It frees no one. Wisdom drowns
In melancholy. Memories perish,
Even the loveliest. Even of the freedom
From pain. Strange and obscure,
Dies the far murmur of things perceived.
A mysterious love remains,
Half woman, half star,
Which trembles in ineffable delicacy over the darkling heart
Like a drop of eternity,

While winter again moves coolly through the land,
And heaven grows lonelier over the treetops,
And the deep-breathing breast turns westward
Where evening goes home, a tardy dreamer.





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