Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOU, NEIGHBOR GOD, by RAINER MARIA RILKE 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. | ||||||||
You, neighbor God, if sometimes in the night I rouse you with loud knocks, I seek you only because I know you are alone and lonely, because your scarce heard breathing seems so slight. And should you need a drink, there's none to hear your groping finds no cupthe long hours darken. Give but a little sign. Be sure I hearken always. I am so near. Between us stands a wall so mere, so fine, so casual, that it might take simply a call from your lips or from mine and it would break all noiselessly away. Your images between us stand like clay. And every image hides you like a name. And if the light in me is made to burn, whereby my depths your instant self discern, the brilliance spends itself upon their frame. And then my senses, that so soon grow lame, apart from you are exiles, hopeless of return. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN DAY by RAINER MARIA RILKE MAIDEN MELANCHOLY by RAINER MARIA RILKE THE LAST SUPPER by RAINER MARIA RILKE TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 1. MOONLIGHT NIGHT by RAINER MARIA RILKE TWO POEMS TO HANS THOMA ON HIS SIXIETH BIRTHDAY: 2. THE KNIGHT by RAINER MARIA RILKE BE NOT AFRAID, GOD by RAINER MARIA RILKE BLUE HYDRANGEAS by RAINER MARIA RILKE GLIMPSE OF A CHILDHOOD by RAINER MARIA RILKE GROWING BLIND by RAINER MARIA RILKE |
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