Poems E-Book

Rainer Maria Rilke

• Herausgeber: Interactive Media
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

Poems

Leseprobe

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems

New Edition

LONDON ∙ NEW YORK ∙ TORONTO ∙ SAO PAULO ∙ MOSCOW

PARIS ∙ MADRID ∙ BERLIN ∙ ROME ∙ MEXICO CITY ∙ MUMBAI ∙ SEOUL ∙ DOHA

TOKYO ∙ SYDNEY ∙ CAPE TOWN ∙ AUCKLAND ∙ BEIJING

New Edition

Published by Sovereign Classic

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This Edition

First published in 2017

Copyright © 2017 Sovereign

All Rights Reserved.

ISBN: 9781787243378

Contents

FIRST POEMS

THE BOOK OF PICTURES

NEW POEMS

THE BOOK OF HOURS

THE BOOK OF PILGRIMAGE

THE BOOK OF POVERTY AND DEATH

FIRST POEMS

EVENING

The bleak fields are asleep,

My heart alone wakes;

The evening in the harbour

Down his red sails takes.

Night, guardian of dreams,

Now wanders through the land;

The moon, a lily white,

Blossoms within her hand.

MARY VIRGIN

How came, how came from out thy night

Mary, so much light

And so much gloom:

Who was thy bridegroom?

Thou callest, thou callest and thou hast forgot

That thou the same art not

Who came to me

In thy Virginity.

I am still so blossoming, so young.

How shall I go on tiptoe

From childhood to Annunciation

Through the dim twilight

Into thy Garden.

THE BOOK OF PICTURES

PRESAGING

I am like a flag unfurled in space,

I scent the oncoming winds and must bend with them,

While the things beneath are not yet stirring,

While doors close gently and there is silence in the chimneys

And the windows do not yet tremble and the dust is still heavy—

Then I feel the storm and am vibrant like the sea

And expand and withdraw into myself

And thrust myself forth and am alone in the [...]