Elegy X (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying visionI may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!That of the ...
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying visionI may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels!That of the ...
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenlypressed me against ...
O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes?We are not of one mind. Are not like birdsin unison migrating. ...
But fear of the inexplicable has not alone impoverishedthe existence of the individual; the relationship betweenone human being and another ...
I held myself too open, I forgotthat outside not just things exist and animalsfully at ease in themselves, whose eyesreach ...
Swing of the heart. O firmly hung, fastened on whatinvisible branch. Who, who gave you the push,that you swung with ...
We cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with brilliance from inside,like ...
IShe lay, and serving-men her lithe arms took,And bound them round the withering old man,And on him through the long ...
He nearly drowned in hermit-seeking seasOf visitors - those voids he had allowedTo suck his soul - damned sycophantic fleas!Wrenching ...
It didn't help for him to drive the quillsOf porcupines into his lecher's flesh -His pandemonian senses uttered shrillExpulsive cries ...
I am blind, you outsiders. It is a curse, a contradiction, a tiresome farce, and every day I despair. I put my hand ...
You must not understand this life.Then everyday will be like a party.Simply let every day belike a child who, passing ...
A prince survives by unseen acts.At night the chief advisor knockedat Frederick's workroom in the towerand found him formulating factsfor ...
That's my window. This minuteSo gently did I alightFrom sleep—was still floating in it.Where has my life its limitAnd where ...
The steadfastness of generations of nobilityshows in the curving lines that form the eyebrows.And the blue eyes still show traces ...
They put you in the picture if you pay.So even if you didn't see the Savior,And even if the holy ...
God speaks to each of us before we are,Before he's formed us - then, in cloudy speech,But only then, he ...
We're perfect for you - bliss beyond your dreams -Just look: The blood and darkness in a beastEvolved in us ...
He capped a flask and hissed a quiet curse -Bleakly smiling, tapped a switch to bleedA pressure vessel. (Clearly what ...
Long before our time they called her old,But she'd walk down the same road every day.Her age became too much ...
Everything is farand long gone by.I think that the starglittering above mehas been dead for a million years.I think there ...
In the eyes: dream. The brow as if it could feelsomething far off. Around the lips, a greatfreshness—seductive, though there ...
I am, O Anxious One. Don't you hear my voicesurging forth with all my earthly feelings?They yearn so high, that ...
Center of all centers, core of cores,almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet—all this universe, to the furthest starsall beyond them, is ...
My whole life is mine, but whoever says sowill deprive me, for it is infinite.The ripple of water, the shade ...
That blind man by the bridge, who is as grayAs a forgotten country's boundary stone,Might be the thing most constant ...
The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as ...
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still,Slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet;And without ...
Again and again, however we know the landscape of loveand the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names,and the frighteningly ...
TIme and again, however well we know the landscape of love,and the little church-yard with lamenting names,and the frightfully silent ...
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