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Subject: RILKE, RAINER MARIA (1875-1926)
Matches Found: 15

UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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


JUST DESSERT, by COLETTE INEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When rilke's writer's block
Subject(s): Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Writer's Block


LETTER TO A YOUNG POET, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem 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


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)


LIPSTICK, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who can hurry past the five-and-dime
Last Line: From behind his eyelids, feverish and weak?
Subject(s): Cosmetics; Lips; Mothers; Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Vanity; Women


LOST IN TRANSLATION; FOR RICHARD HOWARD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A card table in the library stands ready
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Translating & Interpreting; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


LOST IN TRANSLATION; FOR RICHARD HOWARD, by JAMES INGRAM MERRILL    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A card table in the library stands ready
Last Line: To shade and fiber, milk and memory
Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Translating And Interpreting; Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896)


ONCE IN KHAIROUAN, SOUTH OF TUNIS, A YELLOW KABYL DOG BIT, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: He or she would immediately recognize it as such
Subject(s): Dogs; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926)


PAULA BECKER TO CLARA WESTHOFF, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn feels slowed down
Last Line: Will hear all I say and cannot say
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Becker, Paula (1876-1907); Modersohn, Otto; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Westhoff, Clara (1878-1954); Women


PEOPLE AT NIGHT (DERIVED FROM RILKE), by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem 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)


REASON, MY DEAR MARIA, BRINGS US TO PROXIMITY, by LAUREL SPEER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You've said, I'm afraid, if my devils leave me
Last Line: See my secretary on the way out; your 50 minutes are up
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Women's Rights


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'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)


THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again
Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle --
Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence