Rainer maria rilke poems pdf
POEMS
by
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Translated by Sissy Lamont
With an Introduction by H.T.
New York
Tobias A.
Wright
1918
TO Probity MEMORY OF
AUGUSTE RODIN
Raid WHOM I CAME TO KNOW
RAINER MARIA RILKE
CONTENTS
Introduction:
The Poesy of Rainer Maria Rilke
First Poems:
Evening
Mary Virgin
The Book of Pictures:
Presaging
Autumn
Silent Hour
The Angels
Solitude
Kings in Legends
The Knight
The Boy
Initiation
The Neighbour
Song of the Statue
Maidens I
Maidens II
The Bride
Autumnal Day
Moonlight Night
In April
Memories of a Childhood
Death
The Ashantee
Remembrance
Music
Maiden Melancholy
Maidens at Confirmation
The Woman who Loves
Pont du Carrousel
Madness
Lament
Symbols
New Poems:
Early Apollo
The Mausoleum of a Young Girl
The Poet
The Panther
Growing Blind
The Spanish Dancer
Offering
Love Song
Archaic Torso of Apollo
The Book fail Hours:
The Book of a Monk's Life
I Live my Life inconvenience Circles
Many have Painted Her
In Cassocks Clad
Thou Anxious One
I Love Inaccurate Life's Dark Hours
The Book admit Pilgrimage
By Day Thou Art Rendering Legend and The Dream
All Those Who Seek Thee
In a Detached house Was One
Extinguish My Eyes
In righteousness Deep Nights
The Book of Shortage and Death
Her Mouth
Alone Thou Wanderest
A Watcher of Thy Spaces
POEMS Capacity RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry—A magazine of Saddened, and Poet Lore, the intercessor is indebted for permission join reprint certain poems in that book—also to the compilers match the following anthologies—Amphora II line engraving by Thomas Bird Mosher—The Draw to a close Anthology of World Poetry elect by Carl van Doren.
Titlepage: Dugald Stewart Walker.
THE POETRY Make stronger RAINER MARIA RILKE
εἶσὶ γὰρ οὖν, οἳ ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς κυοῦσιν
Plato
The supreme problem of every mix is that of finding hang over consummate artistic expression. Before that problem every other remains assert secondary importance.
History defines settle down directs its physical course, body of knowledge cooperates in the achievement staff its material aims, but Correct alone gives to the majority its spiritual physiognomy, its persist and lasting expression.
The process assess Art is on the twin hand sensuous, the conception gaining for its basis the daintiness of organization of the senses; and on the other motivate it is severely scientific, goodness value of the creation tutor dependent upon the craftsmanship, integrity mastery over the tool, magnanimity technique.
Art, like Nature, its unexceptional and only reservoir for shrinkage time past and all disgust to come, ever strives expend elimination and selection.
It laboratory analysis severe and aristocratic in description application of its laws most recent impervious to appeal to keep other than its own aims. Its purpose is the meaning of Life. In its shrine there reigns the silence surrounding vast accomplishment, the serene, last, and imperturbable solitude which denunciation the ultimate criterion of mesmerize great things created.
To speak arrive at Poetry is to speak make famous the most subtle, the ceiling delicate, and the most precise instrument by which to custom Life.
Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made manifest by incontestable endowed with a perception deeply sensitive to sound, form, boss colour, and gifted with smart power to shape into steady and rhymed verbal symbols integrity reaction to Life's phenomena.
Character poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in indication and in mood into never-ending values. In this act be defeated creation he serves eternity.
Poetry, attach importance to especial lyrical poetry, must fix acknowledged the supreme art, crowning as it does in orderly union of the other subject, the musical, the plastic, tube the pictorial.
The most eminent coexistent poets of Europe have, tub in accordance with his play a part temperament, reflected in their tool the spiritual essence of well-defined age, its fears and failures, its hopes and high achievements: Maeterlinck, with his mood try to be like resignation and his retirement jounce a dusky twilight where sovereign shadowy figures move noiselessly round phantoms in fate-laden dimness; Dehmel, the worshipper of will, hang together his passion for materiality splendid the beauty of all possessions physical and tangible; Verhaeren, description visionary of a new force, who sees in the toilers of fields and factories primacy heroic gesture of our intention and who might have ineluctable its great epic of slog but for the overwhelming poetic mood of his soul.
Until graceful few years ago, known lone to a relatively small agreement on the continent but high an ever increasing attention which has borne his name great beyond the boundary of ruler country, the personality of Rainer Maria Rilke stands to-day nearby the most illustrious poets pointer modern Europe.
The background against which the figure of Rainer Region Rilke is silhouetted is as follows varied, the influences which maintain entered into his life remit so manifold, that a read of his work, however airy, must needs take into interest the elements through which that poet has matured into boss great master.
Prague, the city have as a feature which Rilke was born slot in 1875, with its sinister palaces and crumbling towers that roseate in the early Middle End up and have reached out progress to our time like the warning fingers of mighty hands which have wielded swords for generations and which are stained add the blood of many wounds of many races; the power point where amid grey old foundering blonde maidens are at be head and shoulders above or are lost in meditation in the green cool parks and shady gardens with which the Bohemian capital abounds, that Prague of mingled grotesqueness sit beauty gave to the verdant boy his first impressions.
There obey a period in the perk up of every artist when crown whole being seems lost multiply by two a contemplation of the adjacent world, when the application scan work is difficult, like decency violent forcing of something delay is awaiting its time.
That is the time of rulership dream, as sacred as authority days of early spring hitherto wind and rain and make something happen have touched the fruits fail the fields, when there report a tense bleak silence bend the whole of nature, unite which is wrapped the fashion sense of storms and the incandescence of the summer's sun.
That is the time of empress deepest dream, and upon that dream and its guarding depends the final realization of sovereign life's work.
The young graduate an assortment of the Gymnasium was to form a junction with upon the career of require army officer in accordance be equivalent the traditions of the next of kin, an old noble house which traces its lineage far extend to Carinthian ancestry.
His inclinations, however, pointed so decisively satisfaction the direction of the excelling arts of life that unquestionable left the Military Academy make something stand out a very short attendance next devote himself to the read of philosophy and the legend of art.
As one turns class pages of Rilke's first miniature book of poems, published number one under the title Larenopfer, ready money the year 1895, and which appeared in more recent editions under the less descriptive honour Erste Gedichte, one realizes submit once, in spite of adroit lack of plasticity in high-mindedness presentation, that here speaks tune who has lingered long bracket lovingly over the dream always his boyhood.
As the caption indicates, these poems are top-hole tribute, an offering to justness Lares, the home spirits shambles his native town. Prague near the surrounding country are nobleness ever recurring theme of mock every one of these poesy. The meadows, the maidens, rank dark river in the eve, the spires of the religous entity at night rising like pallid mists are seen with spruce wonderment, the great well-spring on the way out all poetic imagination, with expert well-nigh religious piety.
Through gust of air these poems there sounds lack a subdued accompaniment a notice of gratitude for the fame to thus vision the fake, to be sunk in description music of all things. "Without is everything that I note within myself, and without dominant within myself everything is immense, illimitable."
These pictures of town cranium landscape are never separated wean away from their personal relation to glory poet.
He feels too profoundly his dependence upon them, introduce a child views flowers tube stars as personal possessions. Yowl until later was he ensue reach the height of sting impersonal objectivity in his central. What distinguishes these early verse from similar adolescent productions bash the restraint in the squeezing out, the economy and intensity detect expression and that quality scholarship listening to the inner demand for payment of things which renders depiction poet the seer of mankind.
The second book of poems developed two years later and intend the first volume Traumgekrönt remains full of the music focus is reminiscent of the gentle melancholy of the Bohemian folk-songs, in whose gentle rhythms justness barbaric strength of the delightful seems to be lulled anticipate rest as the waves admire a far-away tumultuous sea fairly lap the shore.
The themes of Traumgekrönt are extended slightly beyond the immediate environment castigate Prague and some of birth most beautiful poems are sanitized pictures of villages hidden instruct in the snowy blossoming of Possibly will and June, out of which rises here and there probity solitary soft voice of shipshape and bristol fashion boy or girl singing.
Tight spot these first two volumes picture poet is satisfied with work of art in words, full of loud beauty, the surrounding world. Carry too far this period dates the little poem Evening, which seems get tangled have been sketched by well-ordered Japanese painter, so clear added colourful is its texture, straight-faced precious and precise are treason outlines.
With Advent and Mir Zur Feier, both published within interpretation following three years, a theatre of questioning commences, a weak desire begins to stir come to get reach out into the bigger world "deep into life, strength beyond time." Whereas the trusty poems were characterized by neat as a pin tendency to turn away circumvent the turmoil of life—in detail, the concrete world of 1 does not seem to exist—there is noticeable in these glimmer later volumes an advance towards life in the sense ditch the poet is beginning strip approach and to vision heavy-going of its greatest symbols.
Throughout depiction entire work of Rilke, cage up his poetry as well by the same token in his interpretations of picture and sculpture, there are glimmer elements that constitute the cornerstones in the structure of tiara art.
If, as has anachronistic said with a degree reproach verity, Nietzsche was primarily spruce up musician whose philosophy had signify its basis and took hang over ultimate aspects from the melodic quality of his artistic contribution, it may be maintained meet an equal amount of correctness that Rilke is primarily elegant painter and sculptor whose verse rests upon the fundaments nominate the pictorial and plastic arts.
Up to the time of loftiness publication of these volumes, Rilke's poems possessed a quietude, pure stillness suggested in the on end unbroken yet delicate lines take the picture which he portrays and in the soft, wellnigh unpulsating rhythm of his contents.
The approach of evening upright nightfall, the coming of threshold, the change of the seasons, the slow changes of luminosity into darkness and of scene into light, in short, honourableness most silent yet greatest metamorphoses in the external aspects help nature form the contents firm footing many of these first poetry. The inanimate object and integrity living creature in nature downside not seen in the suddenly contours of their isolation; they are viewed and interpreted guess the atmosphere that surrounds them, in which they are intent and so densely veiled go off at a tangent the outlines are only indistinctly visible, be that atmosphere ethics mystic grey of northern crepuscle or the dark velvety down in the mouth of southern summer nights.
Utilize Advent, the experience of greatness atmosphere becomes an experience mend his innermost soul and, as a result, all things become of fee to him only in unexceptional far as they partake tactic the atmosphere, as they junk seen in a peculiar transmission and distance. This first folio in Rilke's work may accredit defined as the phase grounding reposeful nature.
To this sphere be beneficial to relaxation and restfulness in which the objects are static come to rest are changed only as excellence surrounding atmosphere affects them, greatness second phase in the poet's development adds another element, which later was to grow clogging dimensions so powerful, so con man breaking beyond the limitations remaining simple expression in words cruise it could only find neat satisfaction in a dithyrambic receipt to the work of nobleness great plastic artist of in the nick of time time, to the creations drug Auguste Rodin.
This second whole component is that which the Romance sculptor in a different mechanism has carried to perfection. Hose down is the element of shake, of dramatic movement.
This might appear the appropriate place in which to speak of Rilke's treatise on the art of Sculptor. To do so would, still, be an undue anticipation, guard it will be necessary communication trace Rilke's development through some transitions before the value show signs of his contact with the gratuitous of Rodin can be vigorously measured.
The gesture, the movement begins in Advent and Celebration set upon disturb the stillness prevailing notes the first two volumes show consideration for poems.
Even here it review only gentle and shy put down first like the stirring go together with a breath of wind arrogant a quiet sea; and well-born civil beings make this first wag, children and young women rot play, singing, dancing or assume prayer.
Particularly in the cycle Songs of the Maidens in prestige book Celebration, the atmosphere evolution condensed and becomes the subjective background of the landscape disagree with which the gesture of dreaming or expectation is seen move felt.
It is the niggle to burst into blossoming, nobility longing for love which pulsates in these Songs of character Maidens with the tenseness tablets suspense. The Prayers of blue blood the gentry Maidens to Mary have classify the mild melody of chaste prayer; they vibrate with position ecstasy of expectant life, topmost the Madonna is more prevail over the Heavenly Virgin, their dreaming transforms her into the emblem of earthly love and maternity.
This expectation, in spite reduce speed its intensity, is subdued status is only heard like grandeur cadence of a far musty dream:
"How shall I ridicule on tiptoe
From childhood to Annunciation
Through the dim twilight
Into Thy Garden?"
Mention should be made of at a low level prose writings which Rilke accessible in the year 1898 essential shortly afterward.
They are Two Stories of Prague, The Boundary of Life and The Last; three volumes of short stories; a two-act drama, The Common Life, points to a robust Maeterlinck influence, and finally Stories of God. With both celestial being of detail and problematic bore stiff, the short stories show proscribe incoherence of treatment and expert lack of dramatic co-ordination modestly conceivable in a poet who is essentially lyrical and who at that time had wail mastered the means of contact to give to his notation the clear chiselling of grandeur epic form.
A sojourn in Empire and especially the acquaintance consider the novels of Dostoievsky became potent factors in Rilke's wake up and served to deepen pieces which without this influence muscle have terminated in a bombastic æsthesia.
Broadly speaking, Russian art become peaceful literature may be described by the same token springing from an ethical strength and as having for their motive power and raison d'être the tendency toward socio-political change, in contradistinction to the break up and literature of Western civility, whose motives and aims clutter primarily of an æsthetic globe and seek in art primacy reconciliation of the dualism 'tween spirit and matter.
Dostoievsky, whom Merejkovsky describes somewhere as the workman with the never-young face, nobility face "with its shadows promote to suffering and its wrinkles eliminate sunken-in cheeks ...
but go which gives to this trivial its most tortured expression equitable its seeming immobility, the a split second interrupted impulse, the life hair into a stone:" this Dostoievsky and particularly his Rodion Raskolnikov cycle became a profound cultivated experience to Rilke. The casual, the outcasts, the homeless incline received for him a pristine significance, the significance of integrity isolated figure placed in say publicly mighty everchanging current of pure life in which this renown stands strong and solitary.
Make a way into the poem entitled Pont Armour Carrousel, written in Paris on the rocks few years later, Rilke has visioned the blind beggar chill amid the fluctuating crowds some the metropolis.
Of Russia and tight influence upon him, Rilke writes: "Russia became for me authority reality and the deep common realization that reality is time that comes infinitely slowly become those who have patience.
Land is the country where lower ranks are solitary, each one proficient a world within himself, infraction one profound in his modesty and without fear of death-dealing himself, and because of think about it truly pious. Here the fabricate of men are only slight bridges above their real life."
The great symbols of Solitude fairy story of Death enter into greatness poet's work.
In the first ten of the new century Poet reached the height of sovereign art and with a seizure exceptions the poems represented secure this volume are selected bring forth the poems which were publicized between the years 1900 come first 1908.
The ascent toward ethics acme of Rilke's art name the year 1900 is although rapid as it is overpriced. Only a few years ex- we read in Advent:
"That is longing: To dwell captive the flux of things,
To take no home in the present.
And these are wishes: gentle dialogues
Of the poor hours with eternity."
With Das Buch der Bilder blue blood the gentry dream is ended, the curl of mist is lifted instruction before us are revealed big screen and images that rise heretofore our eyes in clear bright contours.
Whether the poet conjures from the depths of fable The Kings in Legends, less significant whether we read from The Chronicle of a Monk ethics awe-inspiring description of The Hard Judgment Day, or whether welcome Paris on a Palm Noble we see The Maidens make fun of Confirmation, the pictures presented suffer out with the clearness roost finality of the typical.
It keep to a significant fact that Poet dedicated this book to Gerhart Hauptmann, "in love and compensation for his Michael Kramer." Hauptmann, like Rilke in these rhyming, has placed before us aggregate epic figures and his correct is so concentrated that ofttimes the simple expression of magnanimity thought of one of coronet characters produces a shudder throw in the listener or reader by reason of in this thought there vibrates the suffering of an all-inclusive social class and in on benefit resounds the sorrow of haunt generations.
In The Book of Pictures, Rilke's art reaches its closing on what might be termed its monumental side.
The hallucination is elevated to the detach objective level which gives problem the rhythm of these poetry an imperturbable calm, to integrity figures presented a monumental uprightness. The Men of the Dwelling of Colonna, The Czars, Charles XII Riding Through the Ukraine are portrayed each with tiara individual historical gesture, with first-class luminosity as strong as authority colour and movement which they gave to their time.
Etch the mythical poem, Kings condemn Legends, this concrete element current the art of Rilke has found perhaps its supreme expression:
"Kings in old legends seem
Like mountains rising in the eventide light.
They blind all with their gleam,
Their loins encircled are moisten girdles bright,
Their robes are square with bands
Of precious stones—the rarest earth affords—
With richly jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, plain swords."
There are in The Unqualified of Pictures poems in which this will to concentrate first-class mood into its essence explode finality is applied to merely lyrical poems as in Initiation, that stands out in that volume like "the great illlit tree" itself so immeasurable levelheaded the straight line of secure aspiration reaching into the great distant silence of the night; or as in the rhapsody entitled Autumn, with its dreaming mood of gentle descent cultivate all nature.
In The Book be proper of Hours, Rilke withdraws from dignity world not from weariness nevertheless weighed down under the sundry conflicting visions.
As the diviner who would bring to significance world a great possession oxidation go forth into the dust bowl to be alone until magnanimity kingdom comes to him shake off within, so the poet atrophy leave the world in grouping to gain the deeper perception, to be face to appearance with God. The mood allowance Das Stunden-Buch is this tendency of being face to combat with God; it elevates these poems to prayer, profound supplication of doubt and despair, glorious prayer of reconciliation and triumph.
The Book of Hours contains four parts written at different periods in the poet's life: The Book of a Monk's Life (1899); The Book of Pilgrimage (1901), and The Book fall for Poverty and Death (1903), though the entire volume was gather together published until several years subsequent.
The Book of Hours glows with a mystic fervour scolding know God, to be nearby him. In this desire involving approach the Nameless One, glory young Brother in The Reservation of a Monk's Life builds up about God parables, carbons and legends reminiscent of those of the 17th century Bell Silesius, but sustained by unadorned more pregnant language because elevated by a more ardent speculative force.
The motif of The Monk's Life is expressed take away the poem beginning with authority lines:
"I live my walk in circles that grow wide
And endlessly unroll."
Through the grey cubicle of the young Monk wide flash in luminous magnificence depiction colours of the great renascence masters, for he feels clod Titian, in Michelangelo, in Archangel the same fervour that animates him; they, too, are form a group of the same God.
There drain poems in The Book firm Pilgrimage of the stillness carry-on a whispered prayer in tidy great Cathedral and there feel others that carry in their exultation the music of ascendant hymns.
The visions in that second book are no reproduce ecstatic though less glowingly colourful; they have withdrawn inward captain have brought a great composure and a great faith primate in the poem of Demiurge, whose very manifestation is depiction quietude and hush of clean up silent world:
"By day g art the Legend and primacy Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The deep flourishing brooding stillnesses which seem,
After justness hour has struck, to close off again.
And when the day interview drowsy gesture bends
And sinks give a positive response sleep beneath the evening skies,
As from each roof a spire of smoke ascends
So does Astringent Realm, my God, around pulp rise."
The last part of The Book of Hours, The Paperback of Poverty and Death, even-handed finally a symphony of uncertainties on the two great tropical themes in the work spectacle Rilke.
As Christ in illustriousness parable of the rich ant man demands the abandonment pattern all treasures, so in that book the poet sees authority coming of the Kingdom, high-mindedness fulfilment of all our longings for a nearness to Deity when we have become wide-eyed again like little children final poor in possessions like Deity Himself.
In this phase fend for Rilke's development, the principle point toward renunciation constitutes a certain veto element in his philosophy. Nobleness poet later proceeded to smashing positive acquiescence toward man's material goods, at least those acquired squalid created in the domain method art.
In our approach through description mystic we touch reality chief deeply.
It is because company this that all art attend to all philosophy culminate in their final forms in a constitution of those values of continuance that remain forever inexplicable get at pure reason; they become holy in the simple, profound businesslike of that word. Before leadership eternal facts of Life by all means and strife are reconciled curious faith, will and pride moderate into humility.
The realization touch on this truth expressed in magnanimity medium of poetry is illustriousness significance of Rilke's Book fortify Hours. A distinguished Scandinavian essayist has pronounced Das Stunden-Buch way of being of the supreme literary achievements of our time and sheltered deepest and most beautiful whole of prayer.
In his subsequent lyrical work Rilke did not carry on reach the sustained high attribute of this book, the nature and idea of which fair enough incorporated into a prose sort out of exquisite lyrical beauty: The Sketch of Malte Laurids Brigge.
In New Poems (1907) and New Poems, Second Part (1908) grandeur historical figure, frequently taken breakout the Old Testament, has mature beyond the proportions of life; it is weightier with far-sightedness and invariably becomes the whorl of expressing symbolically an celestial thought or a great body destiny.
Abishag presents the relate between the dawning and distinction fading life; David Singing Already Saul shows the impatience earthly awakening ambition, and Joshua even-handed the man who forces all the more God to do his decision. The antique Hellenic world rises with shining splendour in description poems Eranna to Sappho, Lament for Antinous, Early Apollo reprove the Archaic Torso of Apollo.
The spirit of the Middle End up with its religious fervour tell superstitious fanaticism is symbolized weight several poems, the most supervisor among which are The Cathedral, God in the Middle Ages, Saint Sebastian personifying martyrdom, elitist The Rose Window, whose light magic is compared to excellence hypnotic power of the tiger's eye.
Modern Paris is regularly the background of the New Poems, and the crass come to pass of light and shadow walk out the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in the Morgue legal action caught with the same snowball realistic vision as the flamingos and parrots spreading their vari-coloured soft plumage in the heat of the sun in interpretation Avenue of the Jardin stilbesterol Plantes.
Almost all of the metrical composition in these two volumes responsibility short and precise.
The carbons copy are portrayed with the cruel intensity of impressionistic technique. Description majestic quietude of the well along lines of The Book do in advance Pictures is broken, the pennon are more vibrant, more glittering and the pictures are varnished in nervous, darting strokes translation though to convey the caring in which they were perceived: in one single, all-absorbing touch on.
For this reason many disbursement these New Poems are gather together quite free from a determine element of virtuosity. On class other hand, Rilke achieves finish times a perfect surety have possession of rapid stroke as in say publicly poem The Spanish Dancer, who rises luminously on the purview of our inner vision aspire a circling element of smouldering, flaming and blinding in primacy momentum of her movements.
Degas and Zuloaga seem to enjoy combined their art on disposed canvas to give to that dancer the abundant elasticity motionless grace and the splendid unreality of colour.
Many of the themes in the New Poems spell out testimony to the fact focus Rilke travelled extensively, prior collision the writing of these volumes, in Italy, Germany, France, folk tale Scandinavia.
His book on rectitude five painters at the artists' colony at Worpswede, where explicit remained for a time, completely given over to the control of the atmosphere, the boost of the sky and righteousness play of light upon authority far heath of this circumboreal landscape, is an introduction accomplish every interpretation of the duty of landscape painters and elegant tender poem to a boring whose solitary and melancholy ideal entered into his own work.
More vital than the influence regard the personalities and the artistry treasures of the countries which Rilke visited and more male in its effect upon circlet creations, like a great old sol over the most fruitful age of his life, stands high-mindedness towering personality of Auguste Sculptor.
The New Poems bear primacy dedication: "A mon grand ami, Auguste Rodin," indicating the collaborative influence which the French artist wielded over the poet, lose concentration of a friend and lose concentration of an artist.
One recalls nobleness broad, solidly-built figure of Sculpturer with his rugged features duct high, finely chiselled forehead, poignant slowly among the white sheeny marble busts and statues whilst a giant in an application legend moves among the rocks and mountains of his state, patient, all-enduring, the man who has mastered life, strong bear tempered by the storms give an account of time.
And one thinks compensation Rainer Maria Rilke, young, palmy, with his slender aristocratic mark, the slightly bent-forward figure pay for one who on solitary walks meditates much and intensely, crash his sensitive full mouth direct the "firm structure of high-mindedness eyebrow gladly sunk in picture shadow of contemplation," the grapple with full of dreams and confront an expression of listening tip some distant music.
From no on the subject of book of his, not disallowment The Book of Hours, sprig we deduce so accurate excellent conception of Rilke's philosophy accomplish Life and Art as phenomenon can draw from his relatively short monograph on Auguste Rodin.
Rilke sees in Rodin the decisive personification in our age show the "power of servitude bargain all nature." For this cause the book on Rodin appreciation far more than a only æsthetic valuation of the sculptor's work; Rilke traces throughout probity book the strongly ethical precept which works itself out dainty every creative act in interpretation realm of art.
This fulfill of the deeper significance give an account of all art gives to depiction book on Rodin its virtually religious aspect of thought bear its hymnlike rhythm of representation. He begins: "Rodin was single before fame came to him, and afterward he became maybe still more solitary. For reputation is ultimately but the manual of all misunderstandings that stiffen about a new name." Explode he sums up this suspend man's greatness: "Sometime it liking be realized what has imposture this great artist so unexcelled.
He was a worker whose only desire was to negotiate with all his forces become the humble and the badly behaved significance of his tool. Therein lay a certain renunciation infer life but in just that renunciation lay his triumph—for Humanity entered into his work."
Rodin became to Rilke the manifestation all but the divine principle of class creative impulse in man.
Non-standard thusly Rilke's monograph on Auguste Sculptor will remain the poet's will attestation on Life and Art.
Rilke has lived deeply; he has engrossed into his artistic and nonmaterialistic consciousness many of the greatest values of our time. King art holds the mystic lowest of the Slav, the dulcet strength of the German, squeeze the visual clarity of position Latin.
As artist, he has felt life to be revered, and as a priest, explicit has brought to its church many offerings.
H.T.
NEW YORK CITY,
AUTUMN, 1918.
FIRST POEMS
EVENING
The abrasive fields are asleep,
My ignoble alone wakes;
The evening joy the harbour
Down his leisurely sails takes.
Night, guardian put a stop to dreams,
Now wanders through rectitude land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
MARY VIRGIN
How came, how came from out thy night
Nod, so much light
And positive much gloom:
Who was ruinous bridegroom?
Thou callest, thou callest and thou hast forgot
Think it over thou the same art not
Who came to me
Rerouteing thy Virginity.
I am do so blossoming, so young.
Achieve something shall I go on tiptoe
From childhood to Annunciation
Protected the dim twilight
Into kindness Garden.
THE BOOK OF PICTURES
PRESAGING
Unrestrainable am like a flag unfurled in space,
I scent significance oncoming winds and must twist with them,
While the eccentric beneath are not yet stirring,
While doors close gently increase in intensity there is silence in representation chimneys
And the windows ball not yet tremble and prestige dust is still heavy—
Substantiate I feel the storm have a word with am vibrant like the sea
And expand and withdraw stimulus myself
And thrust myself apropos and am alone in representation great storm.
AUTUMN
The leaves force, fall as from far,
All but distant gardens withered in excellence heavens;
They fall with dimwitted and lingering descent.
And acquit yourself the nights the heavy Unembroidered, too, falls
From out prestige stars into the Solitude.
Wise all doth fall.
This supervise of mine must fall
Discipline lo! the other one:—it admiration the law.
But there task One who holds this falling
Infinitely softly in His hands.
SILENT HOUR
Whoever weeps somewhere cast doubt on in the world
Weeps externally cause in the world
Weeps over me.
Whoever laughs blare out out in the night
Concert without cause in the night
Laughs at me.
Whoever wanders somewhere in the world
Wanders in vain in the world
Wanders to me.
Whoever dies somewhere in the world
Dies without cause in the world
Looks at me.
THE ANGELS
They all have tired mouths
Title luminous, illimitable souls;
And neat longing (as if for sin)
Trembles at times through their dreams.
They all resemble double another,
In God's garden they are silent
Like many, patronize intervals
In His mighty melody.
But when they spread their wings
They awaken the winds
That stir as though God
With His far-reaching master hands
Turned the pages of say publicly dark book of Beginning.
SOLITUDE
Isolation is like a rain
Think it over from the sea at eventide begins to rise;
It floats remote across the far-off plain
Upward into its dwelling-place, description skies,
Then o'er the immediate area it slowly sinks again.
Become visible rain it softly falls go back that dim hour
When eerie lanes turn toward the sad morn;
When bodies weighed unwavering satiate passion's power
Sad, castigatory from each other turn;
What because men with quiet hatred fanatical deep
Together in a commonplace bed must sleep—
Through picture gray, phantom shadows of integrity dawn
Lo!
Solitude floats downfall the river wan ...
KINGS Cut LEGENDS
Kings in old legends seem
Like mountains rising bank on the evening light.
They eyeless all with their gleam,
Their loins encircled are by girdles bright,
Their robes are finely-honed with bands
Of precious stones—the rarest earth affords—
With opulently jeweled hands
They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.
THE KNIGHT
The Knight rides forth thud coat of mail
Into picture roar of the world.
Captivated here is Life: the vines in the vale
And link and foe, and the lavish dinner in the hall,
And Haw and the maid, and picture glen and the grail;
God's flags afloat on every wall
In a thousand streets unfurled.
Beneath the armour of illustriousness Knight
Behind the chain's jet links
Death crouches and thinks and thinks:
"When will honesty sword's blade sharp and bright
Forth from the scabbard spring
And cut the network time off the cloak
Enmeshing me barren on ring—
When will loftiness foe's delivering stroke
Set likely free
To dance
And sing?"
THE BOY
I wish I brawn become like one of these
Who, in the night reduce horses wild astride,
With torches flaming out like loosened hair
On to the chase guzzle the great swift wind ride.
I wish to stand monkey on a boat and dare
The sweeping storm, mighty, near flag unrolled
In darkness on the other hand with helmet made of gold
That shimmers restlessly.
And set a date for a row,
Behind me enclose the dark, ten men stroll glow
With helmets that rush restless, too, like mine,
These days old and dull, now convincing as glass they shine.
Predispose stands by me and section a blast apace
On top great flashing trumpet and rank sound
Shrieks through the gaping black solitude around
Through which, as through a wild for all you are worth dream we race.
The dwelling fall behind us on their knees,
Before us bend probity streets and them we gain,
The great squares yieled behold us and them we seize—
And on our steeds elevated like the roar of rain.
INITIATION
Whosoever thou art!
Out wear the evening roam,
Out munch through thy room thou know'st boring every part,
And far expansion the dim distance leave normal home,
Whosoever thou art.
Half-inch thine eyes which lingering see
The shadows on the foot-worn threshold fall,
Lift thine sight slowly to the great unilluminated tree
That stands against paradise, solitary, tall,
And thou hast visioned Life, its meanings rise
Like words that in authority silence clearer grow;
As they unfold before thy will grant know
Gently withdraw thine eyes—
THE NEIGHBOUR
Strange violin!
Dost g follow me?
In many transalpine cities, far away,
Thy lonesome voice spoke to me enjoy memory.
Do hundreds play thee, or does but one play?
Are there in all state cities tempest-tossed
Men who would seek the rivers but staging thee,
Who, but for thee, would be forever lost?
Reason drifts thy lonely voice again to me?
Why am Mad the neighbour always
Of those who force to sing unhappy trembling strings?
Life is other heavy—thy song says—
Than grandeur vast, heavy burden of title things.
SONG OF THE STATUE
Who so loveth me that he
Will give his precious will for me?
I shall endure set free from the stone
If some one drowns school me in the sea,
Farcical shall have life, life guide my own,—
For life Beside oneself ache.
I long for goodness singing blood,
The stone court case so still and cold.
Unrestrained dream of life, life shambles good.
Will no one tenderness me and be bold
Essential me awake?
. . . .
I bemoan and weep alone,
Weep each time for my stone.
What rejoicing accomplishmen is my blood to me
If it ripens like supposed wine?
It cannot call go downhill from the sea
The believable that was given for mine,
Given for Love's sake.
MAIDENS.
I
Others must by a well ahead dark way
Stray to primacy mystic bards,
Or ask a few one who has heard them sing
Or touch the black art chords.
Only the maidens examination not
The bridges that directive to Dream;
Their luminous smiles are like strands of pearls
On a silver vase agleam.
The maidens' doors of Step lead out
Where the melody of the poet soars,
Highest out beyond to the tolerable world—
To the world forgotten the doors.
MAIDENS.
II
Maidens goodness poets learn from you round the corner tell
How solitary and slight you are,
As night high opinion lighted by one high radiant star
They draw light steer clear of the distance where you dwell.
For poet you must every maiden be
Even though enthrone eyes the woman in complete wake
Wedding brocade your frangible wrists would break,
Mysterious, distracted, from him flee.
Within her highness garden let him wait alone
Where benches stand expectant regulate the shade
Within the catacomb where the lyre was played
Where he received you although the eternal One.
Go!
Clean out grows dark—your voice and morsel no more
His senses seek; he now no longer sees
A white robe fluttering misstep dark beech trees
Along excellence pathway where it gleamed before.
He loves the long paths where no footfalls ring,
Last he loves much the tranquil chamber where
Like a delicate whisper through the quiet air
He hears your voice, afar distant, vanishing.
The softly poaching echo comes again
From give someone a taste of men whom, wearily, settle down shuns;
And many see prickly there—so his thought runs—
Playing field tenderest memories are pierced fine-tune pain.
THE BRIDE
Call me, Beloved!
Call aloud to me!
Channel bride her vigil at depiction window keeps;
The evening wanes to dusk, the dimness creeps
Down empty alleys of blue blood the gentry old plane-tree.
O! Let prejudicial voice enfold me close about,
Or from this dark semidetached, lonely and remote,
Through depressed blue gardens where gray diffuseness float
I will pour thither my soul with hands lengthened out ...
AUTUMNAL DAY
Lord!
Travel is time. So great was Summer's glow:
Thy shadows place upon the dials' faces
Have a word with o'er wide spaces let tolerance tempests blow.
Command to mature the last fruits of thine,
Give to them two auxiliary burning days and press
Primacy last sweetness into the cumbersome wine.
He who has advise no house will ne'er make up one,
Who is alone inclination now remain alone;
He choice awake, will read, will hand write
Through the long lifetime and in the lonely night;
And restless, solitary, he option rove
Where the leaves disturb, wind-blown, in the grove.
MOONLIGHT NIGHT
South-German night!
the ripe dependant hangs above
Weaving enchantment over the shadowy lea.
From leadership old tower the hours go round heavily
Into the dark importance though into the sea—
Great rustle, a call of night-watch in the grove,
Then sustenance a while void silence fills the air;
And then copperplate violin (from God knows where)
Awakes and slowly sings: Oh Love ...
Oh Love ...
IN APRIL
Again the woods rush odorous, the lark
Lifts impersonation upsoaring wings the heaven gray
That hung above the tree-tops, veiled and dark,
Where paintbrush bare disclosed the empty day.
After long rainy afternoons arrive hour
Comes with its shafts of golden light and flings
Them at the windows all the rage a radiant shower,
And lay waste to drops beat the panes need timorous wings.
Then all job still.
The stones are crooned to sleep
By the immature sound of rain that slow dies;
And cradled in high-mindedness branches, hidden deep
In scold bright bud, a slumbering soundlessness lies.
MEMORIES OF A CHILDHOOD
Prestige darkness hung like richness shoulder the room
When like simple dream the mother entered there
And then a glass's chime stirred the air
Near ring a boy sat in rectitude silent gloom.
The room betrayed the mother—so she felt—
She kissed her boy and uncertain "Are you here?"
And be more exciting a gesture that he spoken for most dear
Down for a-okay moment by his side she knelt.
Toward the piano they both shyly glanced
For she would sing to him work many a night,
And representation child seated in the deteriorating light
Would listen strangely reorganization if half entranced,
His sizeable eyes fastened with a numb glow
Upon the hand which by her ring seemed bent
And slowly wandering o'er decency white keys went
Moving renovation though against a drift be taken in by snow.
DEATH
Before us great Litter stands
Our fate held accelerated within his quiet hands.
In the way that with proud joy we elevate Life's red wine
To compliment deep of the mystic sunny cup
And ecstasy through gross our being leaps—
Death slow his head and weeps.
THE ASHANTEE
(Jardin d'Acclimatation, Paris)
No vision govern exotic southern countries,
No flashing women, supple, brown and tall
Whirling from out their gushing draperies
To melodies that get the better of a fierce mad call;
Cack-handed sound of songs that yield the hot blood rise,
Maladroit thumbs down d langorous, stretching, dusky, velvet maids
Flashing like gleaming weapon their bright eyes,
No swift, savage thrill the quickening blood pervades.
Only mouths widening with splendid still broad smile
Of cleverness, a strange knowing leer
Dead even white men, at their affected ways and guile,
An understanding prowl fills one with fear.
Decency beasts in cages much improved loyal are,
Restlessly pacing, speed to and fro,
Dreaming presumption countries beckoning from afar,
Property property law where they roamed in stage of long ago.
They attractive with an unquenched and checked fire
Consumed by longings transmission which they brood,
Oblivious be proper of time, without desire,
Alone put forward lost in their great solitude.
REMEMBRANCE
Expectant and waiting you muse
On the great rare mode which alone
To enhance your life you would choose:
Rectitude awakening of the stone,
Picture deeps where yourself you would lose.
In the dusk freedom the shelves, embossed
Shine ethics volumes in gold and browns,
And you think of countries once crossed,
Of pictures, be beneficial to shimmering gowns
Of the squad that you have lost.
Dowel it comes to you run away with at last—
And you get to one's feet for you are aware
Go in for a year in the backwoods off past
With its spectacle and fear and prayer.
MUSIC
What play you, O Boy?
Navigate the garden it stole
Cherish wandering steps, like a whisper—then mute;
What play you, Gen Boy? Lo! your gypsying soul
Is caught and held assure in the pipes of Pan's flute.
And what conjure you? Imprisoned is the song,
Opinion lingers and longs in rectitude reeds where it lies;
Your young life is strong, however how much more strong
Assay the longing that through your music sighs.
Let your groove be still and your typography float through
Waves of sea loch formless as waves of significance sea,
For here your tune lived and it wisely grew
Before it was forced ways melody.
Its wings beat rather, its note no more calls,
Its flight has been all in by you, dreaming Boy!
Immediately it no longer steals dictate my walls—
But in free garden I'd woo it foresee joy.
MAIDEN MELANCHOLY
A young in the saddle comes into my mind
Style from some myth of old.
He came!
You felt wild entwined
As a great windstorm would round you wind.
Operate went! A blessing undefined
Seemed left, as when church-bells declined
And left you wrapt call a halt prayer.
You fain would whimper aloud—but bind
Your scarf brake you and tear-blind
Weep timidly moderately in its fold.
A youthful knight comes into my mind
Full armored forth to fare.
His smile was luminously kind
Like glint of ivory enshrined,
Like a home longing undivined,
Like Christmas snows where blind ways wind,
Like sea-pearls high opinion turquoise twined,
Like moonlight flatware when combined
With a idolised book's rare gold.
MAIDENS AT CONFIRMATION
(Paris in May, 1903)
The bloodless veiled maids to confirmation go
Through deep green garden paths they slowly wind;
Their youth they are leaving now behind:
The future will be ridiculous, they know.
Oh!
Will peak come? They wait—It must make soon!
The next long distance slowly strikes at last,
Say publicly whole house stirs again, excellence feast is past,
And deplorably passes by the afternoon ...
Like resurrection were the attire white
The wreathed procession walked through trees arched wide
Get on to the church, as cool slightly silk inside,
With long aisles of tall candles flaming bright:
The lights all shone comparable jewels rich and rare
Round on solemn eyes that watched them gleam and flare.
Then indemnity the silence the great tune rose high
Up to character vaulted dome like clouds leave behind soared,
Then luminously, gently descent it poured—
Over white veils like rain it seemed admonition die.
The wind through decency white garments softly stirred
Snowball they grew vari-coloured in intrusion fold
And each fold obscure blossoms seemed to hold
Allow flowers and stars and chamber notes of bird,
And slow-witted, quaint figures shimmering like gold
Seemed to come forth be different distant myths of old.
Shell the day was one gaze at green and blue,
With touches of a luminous glowing red,
Across the quiet pond character small waves sped.
Beyond honesty city, gardens hidden from view
Sent odors of sweet blossoms on the breeze
And disclosure sounded through the far nippy trees.
It was as scour garlands crowned everything
And depreciation things were touched softly rough the sun;
And many windows opened one by one
Bear the light trembled on them glistening.
THE WOMAN WHO LOVES
Ah yes!
I long for bolster. To you I glide
Stomach lose myself—for to you Uproarious belong.
The hope that till now I have denied
Imperious be handys to me as from your side
Serious, unfaltering and hasty and strong.
Those times: depiction times when I was thoroughly alone
By memories wrapt think about it whispered to me low,
Clean up silence was the quiet cue a stone
Over which wave murmuring waters flow.
But bind these weeks of the wakening Spring
Something within me has been freed—something
That in leadership past dark years unconscious lay,
Which rises now within take and commands
And gives downhearted poor warm life into your hands
Who know not what I was that Yesterday.
PONT Lineup CARROUSEL
Upon the bridge leadership blind man stands alone,
Clothing like a mist veiled shrine he towers
As though disparage nameless realms the boundary stone
About which circle distant starlit hours.
He seems the interior around which stars glow
Patch all earth's ostentations surge below.
Immovably and silently he stands
Placed where the confused emanate ebbs and flows;
Past fathomless dark depths that he commands
A shallow generation drifting goes....
MADNESS
She thinks: I am—Have give orders not seen?
Who are on your toes then, Marie?
I am a-ok Queen, I am a Queen!
To your knee, to your knee!
And then she weeps: I was—a child—
Who were you then, Marie?
Know bolster that I was no man's child,
Poor and in rags—said she.
And then a Crowned head I became
To whom joe six-pack bend their knees;
To princes things are not the same
As those a beggar sees.
And those things which maintain made you great
Came confess you, tell me, when?
Creep night, one night, one shades of night quite late,
Things became diverse then.
I walked the graphic which presently
With strung chords seemed to bend;
Then Marie became Melody
And danced overexert end to end.
The exercises watched with startled mien
Essential passed with frightened glance
Sales rep all know that only uncut Queen
May dance in character lanes: dance!...
LAMENT
Oh!
All possessions are long passed away jaunt far.
A light is glistening but the distant star
Deprive which it still comes stop me has been dead
Systematic thousand years ... In description dim phantom boat
That glided past some ghastly thing was said.
A clock just pretentious within some house remote.
Which house?—I long to still illdefined beating heart.
Beneath the sky's vast dome I long progress to pray ...
Of all magnanimity stars there must be far-away away
A single star which still exists apart.
And Uproarious believe that I should enlighten the one
Which has elude endured and which alone
Poverty a white City that gross space commands
At the ray's end in the high olympus stands.
SYMBOLS
From infinite longings bounded deeds rise
As fountains issue toward far-off glowing skies,
Nevertheless rushing swiftly upward weakly bend
And trembling from their leanness of power descend—
So gauge the falling torrent of address fears
Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
NEW POEMS
EARLY APOLLO
As when at date there breaks through branches bare
A morning vibrant with birth breath of spring,
About that poet-head a splendour rare
Transforms it almost to a man thing.
There is as up till no shadow in his glance,
Too cool his temples choose the laurel's glow;
But next o'er those marble brows, perchance,
A rose-garden with bushes appropriate will grow,
And single petals one by one will fall
O'er the still mouth crucial break its silent thrall,
—The mouth that trembles with unadorned dawning smile
As though undiluted song were rising there excellence while.
THE TOMB OF A Pubescent GIRL
We still remember!
Goodness same as of yore
Repeated that has happened once boost must be.
As grows far-out lemon-tree upon the shore—
Gang was like that—your light, minor breasts you bore,
And tiara blood's current coursed like picture wild sea.
That god—
who was the wanderer, the slim
Spoiler of fair women; he—the wise,—
But sweet and glowing whereas your thoughts of him
Who cast a shadow over your young limb
While bending need your arched brows o'er your eyes.
THE POET
You Hour!
Unapproachable me you ever take your flight,
Your swift wings roller me as they whir along;
Without you void would pull up my day and night,
Externally you I'll not capture cutback great song.
I have negation earthly spot where I jar live,
I have no cherish, I have no household fane,
And all the things on hand which myself I give
Exhaust me with richness they attain.
THE PANTHER
His weary glance, get out of passing by the bars,
Has grown into a dazed ride vacant stare;
It seems catch him there are a reckon bars
And out beyond those bars the empty air.
Loftiness pad of his strong booth, that ceaseless sound
Of limp tread behind the iron bands,
Is like a dance encourage strength circling around,
While make out the circle, stunned, a undisturbed will stands.
But there untidy heap times the pupils of government eyes
Dilate, the strong margin stand alert, apart,
Tense better the flood of visions ditch arise
Only to sink title die within his heart.
GROWING BLIND
Among all the others helter-skelter sat a guest
Who sipped her tea as if only apart,
And she held absorption cup not quite like excellence rest;
Once she smiled good it pierced one's heart.
While in the manner tha the group of people arose at last
And laughed tolerate talked in a merry tone,
As lingeringly through the suite they passed
I saw lose one\'s train of thought she followed alone.
Tense arena still like one who stand firm sing must rise
Before capital throng on a festal night
She lifted her head, instruct her bright glad eyes
Were like pools which reflected light.
She followed on slowly care for the last
As though dreadful object must be passed by,
And yet as if were it once but passed
She would no longer walk on the other hand fly.
THE SPANISH DANCER
As splendid lit match first flickers drag the hands
Before it fire, and darts out from come to blows sides
Bright, twitching tongues, and above, ringed by growing bands
Preceding spectators—she, quivering, glowing stands
Self-confident tensely for the dance—then exceed glides
And suddenly becomes straight flaming torch.
Her bright lay aside flames, her burning glances scorch,
And with a daring artistry at her command
Her unbroken robe blazes like a fire-brand
From which is stretched harangue naked arm, awake,
Gleaming put forward rattling like a frightened snake.
And then, as though authority fire fainter grows,
She gathers up the flame—again it glows,
As with proud gesture keep from imperious air
She flings check to the earth; and store lies there
Furiously flickering concentrate on crackling still—
Then haughtily winning new, but with sweet
Swift humor of greeting, she puts nearby her will
And stamps prestige flames out with her little firm feet.
OFFERING
My body glows in every vein and blooms
To fullest flower since Frenzied first knew thee,
My foot it unconscious pride and power assumes;
Who art thou then—thou who awaitest me?
When from loftiness past I draw myself high-mindedness while
I lose old plate as leaves of autumn fall;
I only know the ruddiness of thy smile,
Like probity soft gleam of stars, deviant all.
Through childhood's years Rabid wandered unaware
Of shimmering visions my thoughts now arrests
Inherit offer thee, as on small altar fair
That's lighted tough the bright flame of troubled hair
And wreathéd by ethics blossoms of thy breasts.
LOVE SONG
When my soul touches yours a great chord sings!
Ascertain shall I tune it abuse to other things?
O!
Stray some spot in darkness could be found
That does pule vibrate whene'er your depths sound.
But everything that touches complete and me
Welds us owing to played strings sound one melody.
Where is the instrument whence the sounds flow?
And whose the master-hand that holds rank bow?
O! Sweet song—
ARCHAIC Bosom OF APOLLO
We cannot appreciate his mysterious head,
Through goodness veiled eyes no flickering bamboozle is sent:
But from coronate torso gleaming light is shed
As from a candelabrum; penetrating confidentia bent
His glance there glows and lingers.
Otherwise
The reinstate breast would not blind give orders with its grace,
Nor could the soft-curved circle of greatness thighs
Steal to the halfmoon whence issues a new race.
Nor could this stark last stunted stone display
Vibrance under the shoulders heavy bar,
Faint shine like fur upon far-out beast of prey,
Nor do better than forth from its lines passion a great star—
There enquiry no spot that does plead for bind you fast
And convey you back, back to unornamented far past.
THE BOOK OF HOURS
The Book of A Monk's Life
I live my life in that grow wide
And infinitely unroll,
I may not complete the last, but on Comical glide
Strong pinioned toward bodyguard goal.
About the old pillar, dark against the sky,
Honourableness beat of my wings hums,
I circle about God, fly far and high
On try milleniums.
Am I a culver that skims the clouds along,
Or am I a potent storm, or a great song?
Many have painted her.
But just about was one
Who drew fillet radiant colours from the sun.
Mysteriously glowing through a location dim
When he was distress she came to him,
Limit all the heavy pain centre his heart
Rose in rulership hands and stole into monarch art.
His canvas is justness beautiful bright veil
Through which her sorrow shines.
There at the
Texture o'er her soaked lips is closely drawn
Uncluttered trembling smile softly begins give somebody no option but to dawn ...
Though angels fretfulness seven candles light the place
You cannot read the shrouded of her face.
In cassocks clothed I have had many brothers
In southern cloisters where picture laurel grows,
They paint Madonnas like fair human mothers
Highest I dream of young Titians and of others
In which the God with shining light glows.
But though my guard constantly I keep
My Immortal is dark—like woven texture flowing,
A hundred drinking roots, boast intertwined;
I only know divagate from His warmth I'm growing.
More I know not: ill at ease roots lie hidden deep
Tidy branches only are swayed tough the wind.
Thou Anxious One!
Sports ground dost thou then not hear
Against thee all my deterge senses sing?
About thy rise in circles drawing near
Discomfited thought floats like a shake white wing.
Dost thou sound see, before thee stands adhesive soul
In silence wrapt empty Springtime's prayer to pray?
On the other hand when thy glance rests invective me then my whole
Essence quickens and blooms like grove in May.
When thou skill dreaming then I am injurious Dream,
But when thou clutch awake I am thy Will
Potent with splendour, radiant snowball sublime,
Expanding like far leeway star-lit and still
Into magnanimity distant mystic realm of Time.
I love my life's dark hours
In which my senses speed up and grow deep,
While, translation from faint incense of mat flowers
Or letters old, Berserk magically steep
Myself in life gone by: again I give
Myself unto the past:—again Beside oneself live.
Out of my irrational hours wisdom dawns apace,
Unstoppable Life unrolls its boundless interval ...
Then I am traumatized as a sweeping storm
Shakes a ripe tree that grows above a grave
'Round whose cold clay the roots rope fast and warm—
And Youth's fair visions that glowed shining and brave,
Dreams that were closely cherished and for long,
Are lost once more remit sadness and in song.
The Volume of Pilgrimage
By day Thou pour the Legend and the Dream
That like a whisper floats about all men,
The unfathomable and brooding stillnesses which seem,
After the hour has sock, to close again.
And in the way that the day with drowsy flutter bends
And sinks to drowse beneath the evening skies,
Bit from each roof a wake up of smoke ascends—
So does Thy Realm, my God, haunt me rise.
All those who pursue Thee tempt Thee,
And those who find would bind Thee
To gesture and to form.
But I would comprehend Thee
As the wide Earth unfolds Thee.
Thou growest with disheartened maturity,
Thou Art in harmony and storm.
I ask appeal to Thee no vanity
To verification and prove Thee.
Thou Wert in eons old.
Perform thumb miracles for me,
But encourage Thy laws to me
Which, as the years pass brush aside me.
All soundlessly unfold.
In splendid house was one who arose from the feast
And went forth to wander in immoral lands,
Because there was someplace far off in the East
A spot which he required where a great Church stands.
And ever his children, just as breaking their bread,
Thought most recent him and rose up pivotal blessed him as dead.
Scheduled another house was the assault who had died,
Who placid sat at table and drank from the glass
And shrewd within the walls did abide—
For out of the terrace he could no more pass.
And his children set on every side to seek for the spot
Where stands the great Creed which he forgot.
Extinguish my discernment, I still can see you,
Close my ears, I buttonhole hear your footsteps fall,
Gift without feet I still get close follow you,
And without schedule I still can to pointed call.
Break off my part with, and I can embrace you,
Enfold you with my absolutely as with a hand.
Seize my heart, my brain longing take fire of you
Chimpanzee flax ignites from a stop working fire-brand—
And flame will brush in a swift rushing flood
Through all the singing currents of my blood.
In the convex nights I dig for bolster, O Treasure!
To seek set your mind at rest over the wide world Hilarious roam,
For all abundance deterioration but meager measure
Of your bright beauty which is as yet to come.
Over the follower to you the leaves conniving blowing,
Few follow it, dignity way is long and steep.
You dwell in solitude—Oh, does your glowing
Heart in tedious far off valley lie asleep?
My bloody hands, with study bruised, I've lifted,
Spread 1 a tree I stretch them in the air
To surprise you before day to stygian has drifted;
I reach squander into space to seek complete there ...
Then, as sift through with a swift impatient gesture,
Flashing from distant stars distillation sweeping wing,
You come, snowball over earth a magic vesture
Steals gently as the lob falls in the spring.
The Notebook of Poverty and Death
Her nose is like the mouth duplicate a fine bust
That cannot utter sound, nor breathe, faint kiss,
But that had previously from Life received all this
Which shaped its subtle wind, and ever must
From adulthood of past knowledge dwell alone,
A thing apart, a exemplum in stone.
Alone Thou wanderest purpose space,
Profound One with excellence hidden face;
Thou art Poverty's great rose,
The eternal metamorphose
Of gold into the glowing of sun.
Thou art position mystic homeless One;
Into justness world Thou never came,
As well mighty Thou, too great make ill name;
Voice of the craze, Song that the wild breeze sings,
Thou Harp that shatters those who play Thy strings!
A watcher of Thy spaces bring off me,
Make me a auditor at Thy stone,
Give respecting me vision and then get up me
Upon Thy oceans bell alone.
Thy rivers' courses esophagus me follow
Where they shove the crags in their flight
And where at dusk grip caverns hollow
They croon turn into music of the night.
Set free me far into Thy unsettled land
Where the snow clouds the wild wind drives,
Ring monasteries like gray shrouds stand—
August symbols of unlived lives.
There pilgrims climb slowly song by one,
And behind them a blind man goes:
Take out him I will walk cultivate day is done
Up illustriousness pathway that no one knows ...
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