Losing (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Losing too is still ours; and even forgettingstill has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.When something's let go of, ...
Rainer Maria Rilke Poems (135 Poems)
Duino Elegies: The First Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels' hierarchies? and even if one of them suddenly pressed ...
Sacrifice (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
How my body blooms from every vein more fragrantly, since you appeard to me; look, I walk slimmer now and ...
Early Spring (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses, ...
Slumber Song (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Some day, if I should ever lose you, will you be able then to go to sleep without me softly ...
The Song Of The Beggar (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
I am always going from door to door, whether in rain or heat, and sometimes I will lay my right ...
Black Cat (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
A ghost, though invisible, still is like a place your sight can knock on, echoing; but here within this thick ...
Blank Joy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
She who did not come, wasn't she determined nonetheless to organize and decorate my heart? If we had to exist ...
In The Beginning (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ever since those wondrous days of Creation our Lord God sleeps: we are His sleep. And He accepted this in ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: XXV (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
But you now, dear girl, whom I loved like a flower whose name I didn't know, you who so early ...
What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
What birds plunge through is not the intimate space, in which you see all Forms intensified. (In the Open, denied, ...
Sense Of Something Coming (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
I am like a flag in the center of open space. I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and ...
Parting (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
How I have felt that thing that's called 'to part', and feel it still: a dark, invincible, cruel something by ...
Adam (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
High above he stands, beside the many saintly figures fronting the cathedral's gothic tympanum, close by the window called the ...
Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Along the sun-drenched roadside, from the great hollow half-treetrunk, which for generations has been a trough, renewing in itself an ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: I (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
A tree ascended there. Oh pure transendence! Oh Orpheus sings! Oh tall tree in the ear! And all things hushed. ...
Fire’s Reflection (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection on some piece of gleaming furniture that the child remembers so much ...
Narcissus (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Encircled by her arms as by a shell, she hears her being murmur, while forever he endures the outrage of ...
Piano Practice (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The summer hums. The afternoon fatigues; she breathed her crisp white dress distractedly and put into it that sharply etched ...
The Voices (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
The rich and fortunate do well to keep silent, for no one cares to know who and what they are. ...
Little Tear-Vase (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Other vessels hold wine, other vessels hold oil inside the hollowed-out vault circumscribed by their clay. I, as smaller measure, ...
The Wait (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
It is life in slow motion, it's the heart in reverse, it's a hope-and-a-half: too much and too little at ...
Ignorant Before The Heavens Of My Life (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ignorant before the heavens of my life, I stand and gaze in wonder. Oh the vastness of the stars. Their ...
Lady At A Mirror (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
As in sleeping-drink spices softly she loosens in the liquid-clear mirror her fatigued demeanor; and she puts her smile deep ...
from The Tenth Elegy (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are: the false silence of sound drowning sound, and there--proud, ...
Palm (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror ...
Greek Love-Talk (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
What I have already learned as a lover, I see you, beloved, learning angrily; then for you it distantly departed, ...
Song Of The Sea (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
(Capri, Piccola Marina) Timeless sea breezes, sea-wind of the night: you come for no one; if someone should wake, he ...
Lament (Whom will you cry to, heart?) (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Whom will you cry to, heart? More and more lonely, your path struggles on through incomprehensible mankind. All the more ...
Solemn Hour (Rainer Maria Rilke Poems)
Whoever now weeps somewhere in the world, weeps without reason in the world, weeps over me. Whoever now laughs somewhere ...