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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO YOU, by ELSE LASKER-SCHULER Poet's Biography
First Line: I weep / that at your kiss I feel
Last Line: And flow, scarce heeded, through your blood.
First Line: I weep / that at your kiss I feel
Last Line: And flow, scarce heeded, through your blood.
I weep
That at your kiss I feel
Nothing,
And I must sink into emptiness.
A thousand chasms reveal
No depth,
No void like this.
I wonder, in night's narrowest dark,
How I might tell you, very low,
Yet ever my courage fails.
I would a wind came out of the south
To bear it to you, so
That it would not sound cold to you,
But touch your soul, as warm words do,
And flow, scarce heeded, through your blood.
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