Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Song Of The Beggar
... it were alien to me,for I'm not certain whose voice is crying: ...
What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space
... What birds plunge through is not the intimate space, ...
Little Tear-Vase
... glass, made me heavy and made my curve iridescent, ...
Palm
... receives heavenly roads, which travel ...
Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue
... when at the opposite transparent end, far off,through green sunlight, as through green window panes, ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: VI
... yet each seperate petal is at the same time the negation ...
The Song Of The Blindman
... I am blind, you out there -- that is a curse, ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XXIII
... but, again, forever, turned awaywhen you think you've captured it at last ...
The Sonnets To Orpheus: IV
... return that heaviness to the earth's own weight ...
Lady On A Balcony
... before she stepped out, and on the railingset forth just a little of herself, ...
Autumn
... The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up, ...
Torso of an Archaic Apollo
... Otherwise the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could ...
Falconry
... thrown gleaming from his hand (her wingbeats raised ...
Again and Again
... and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, ...
A Sybil
... In years and, like a forest's, would be told ...
