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Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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Song Of The Sea

... fig tree feels your coming ...

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The Last Supper

... [On seeing Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", Milan 1904 ...

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Girl's Lament

... Am I within myself not in what's greatest ...

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Interior Portrait

... I do not need to see you appear ...

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The Unicorn

... And as he moved, his coat shone like reflected moonlight ...

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Self-Portrait

... yet so as if for times to come, out of these scattered things, ...

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World Was In The Face Of The Beloved

... world, so near that I couldn't almost taste it ...

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The Apple Orchard

... Not to falter! Not to be found wanting!Thus must it be, when willingly you strive ...

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In The Beginning

... but these spells are always outweighed by the ...

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Piano Practice

... her impatience for a realitythat could come: tomorrow, this evening--, ...

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Lament (Whom will you cry to, heart?)

... is breaking, in the storm it is breaking, my slow ...

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The Neighbor

... speak of your lonely nights and those of mine ...

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Evening

... not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes ...

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Dedication To M...

... swing? I'm not just imagining it, as the mirror of my here-and-now ...

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Song

... like a cradle.You, who do not tell me, that you lie awake ...