Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...
That some day, emerging at last from the terrifying vision I may burst into jubilant praise to assenting angels! That ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
For those that never know the light, The darkness is a sullen thing; And they, the Children of the Night, ...
And wherefore have they come, this warlike band, That o'er the ocean many a weary day Have tossed; and now ...
In flat America, in Chicago, Graceland cemetery on the German North Side. Forty feet of Corinthian candle celebrate Pullman embedded ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Longing for spiritual springs, I dragged myself through desert sands ... An angel with three pairs of wings Arrived to ...
Where the sea forever dances Over lonely cliff and dune, Where sweet twilight's vapor glances In a warmer-glowing moon, Where ...
With Homer you conversed alone for days and nights, Our waiting hours were passing slowly, And shining you came down ...
How this tart fable instructs And mocks! Here's the parody of that moral mousetrap Set in the proverbs stitched on ...
They held a polo meeting at a little country town, And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown. ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
WHEN the Norn Mother saw the Whirlwind Hour Greatening and darkening as it hurried on, She left the Heaven of ...
BOWED by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages ...
DEIGN, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round your jewelled scepter bind The lilies ...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten ...
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame To write in praise of brave General Graham! Whose name will ...
It is a year dear one, since you afar Went out beyond my yearning mortal sight A wondrous year! perchance ...
My Claudia, it is long since we have met, So kissed, so held each other heart to heart! I thought ...
There are days when one should be able to pluck off one's head like a dented or worn helmet, straight ...
'Twas grav'd on the Stone of Destiny, In letters four, and letters three; And ne'er did the King of the ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
What should I be but a prophet and a liar, Whose mother was a leprechaun, whose father was a friar? ...
I could not bring this splendid world nor any trading beast In charge of it, to defer, no, not to ...
On the day the world ends A bee circles a clover, A Fisherman mends a glimmering net. Happy porpoises jump ...
When everything was fine And the notion of sin had vanished And the earth was ready In universal peace To ...
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