Mathilde Blind image
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Born in 1841 / Died in 1896 / Germany / German

Poems by Mathilde Blind

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The Tombs Of The Kings

... While Troth holds the trembling balance, weighs the heart and seals its fate ...

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Love And The Muse

... Swift flames of song light leaping from her throat ...

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O Moon

...  Its white ghost haunts the moon-white ways ...

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Saving Love

...  When graves are full of all our hearts held dear, ...

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Soul's Call

... * * * * * When with dolorous moan the billows ...

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Dead Love

... Here, take him, cold, cold, heavy and void of breath! ...

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The Sphinx

...  That Man, and all on which Man wastes his breath, ...

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The Moat

...   And, self-oblivious, Time forgets to note ...

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To The Obelisk

... Her waste stretched shadowless, and fraught with risk ...

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What Magic Is There

... My heart goes forth to thee, oh friend, ...

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The Orange-Peel In The Gutter

... By southern hearts breathed through the grove, ...

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On A Viola D'Amore

... CARVED WITH A CUPID'S HEAD, AND PLAYED ON FOR THE FIRST TIME AFTER MORE THAN A CENTURY ...

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The Agnostic

... --   Not then I missed my God, not then--but said: ...

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I Would I Were The Glow-Worm

...   So might I, leaping from some headlong steep, ...

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Ode To A Child

... On nights when with earthquake the labouring hills are rife ...