To Lou Andreas-Salo (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
I held myself too open, I forgotthat outside not just things exist and animalsfully at ease in themselves, whose eyesreach ...
I held myself too open, I forgotthat outside not just things exist and animalsfully at ease in themselves, whose eyesreach ...
You have born in the lap of privation,Your childhood was useless strife,Today you dance, your eyes full of tears,To the ...
Dawn - and a magical stillness: on earth, quiescence profound;On the waters a vast Content, as of hunger appeased and ...
As darknesse a privation is of Light;That's when the Optick Nerve is stopt from Light:So Death is even a cessation ...
By his paths through the parched desolation,Hot rides and the terrible tramps;By the hunger, the thirst, the privationOf his work ...
Heroes of elder days! untaught to yield,Who bled for Spain on many an ancient field;Ye, that around the oaken cross ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
Dear friends, let me to you relate A plan that I begot of yore,A plan to conquer, extirpate Slaveholding now ...
"YOU who dread the cares and labors Of the tenant's annual quest, You who long for peace and ...
Out on the wastes of the Never Never -That's where the dead men lie!There where the heat-waves dance forever -That's ...
Soldiers are we from the mountain and valley, Soldiers are we from the hill and the plain;Under the flag of ...
To charitable deeds I'm not addicted, For sentiment I do not care a prune,And yet I weep at poverty ...
Some struggle hard for worldly fame,Some toil to have an honored name,And some have great ambition.A few there are who ...
LYING in thy cedarn chest, Didst thou think thy singing done,Comatas? and thyself unblest Prisoned there from sun ...
With eyes that are narrowed to pierce To the awful horizons of land, Through the blaze of hot days, and ...
"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning." We call them here hope in these words of welcome, ...
The hope of America, in the words of liberty the hope of a new life, in freedom "Give us your ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
I held myself too open, I forgot that outside not just things exist and animals fully at ease in themselves, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
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