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Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Song Of The Orphan

... No one can find me useful now: I am too young, ...

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Narcissus

... toward all life embracing itself from afar&hellip ...

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Elegy X

... behind the farthest billboard, pasted with posters for 'Deathless,' ...

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Day in Autumn

... waking up to read a little, draft long letters,  ...

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Night (This night, agitated by the growing storm)

... Where the stars give resistance it does not stop there, ...

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The Beggars

... they are pleased with their accession, ...

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Adam

... And straight he stands and glad of his endurance, ...

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Song of the Little Cripple at the Street Corner

... t like  The look of my face when He saw it ...

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Song of the Dwarf

... but she’s got to lug my heart, my blood, ...

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Loneliness

... have to sleep together in one bed-that is when loneliness receives the rivers ...

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The Panther

... rushes down through the tensed, arrested muscles, ...

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The Sisters

... for they cause blood to rest on blood,when as in the former times they softly touch ...

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Falling Stars

... And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers ...

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You Who Never Arrived

... Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us ...

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Childhood

... with reunion and with passing onas back then, when nothing happened to us ...