Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Lady At A Mirror
... and she only beckons to her maid when at the bottom ...
What Survives
... It isn't the gesture that lasts, ...
Extinguish Thou My Eyes
... arrest my heart, my brain will keep on beating, ...
Before Summer Rain
... will grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glide ...
The Donor
... So that you keep your self-willed shapes contained ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: XIX
... Though the world keeps changing its form ...
Early Spring
... from space, and country lanes are showing ...
Losing
... of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII
... that only by wintering through it all will your heart survive ...
God Speaks To Each Of Us
... Before he's formed us then, in cloudy speech, ...
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart
... - But without a shelter, here on the cliffs of the heart&hellip ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: XXV
... name I didn't know, you who so early were taken away: ...
Autumn Day
... anymore. Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long ...
Sacrifice
... Whatever shines through my childhood years ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: I
... a shelter nailed up out of their darkest longing, ...
