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Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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The Temptation Of St. Anthony

... Screamed for the angel, screamed without restraint ...

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Song Of The Women To The Poet

... We're perfect for you — bliss beyond your dreams — ...

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Buddha in Glory

... a billion stars go spinning through the night, ...

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The Blindman's Song

...   Each morning the sunlight comes into your house, ...

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I Am, O Anxious One

... They yearn so high, that they have sprouted wings ...

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The Spanish Dancer

... into passionate flames, till it becomes a furnace ...

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Elegy IV

... And lovers, are they not forever invading one another's ...

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Abishag

... The stars trembled, and fragrance searched the room, ...

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You Must Not Understand This Life (with original German)

... so wie ein Kind im Weitergehen von jedem Wehen ...

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Time and Again

... TIme and again, however well we know the landscape of love, ...

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Portrait of my Father as a Young Man

... were the first to grasp the distance and dissolve ...

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Fear of the Inexplicable

... Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless ...

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Lament

... which one, at the end of its beam in the sky, ...

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Pont Du Carrousel

... Beside which other paths look snarled and curled, ...

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My Life

... The ripple of water, the shade of the sky ...