Rainer Maria Rilke

The Poetry Of Rainer Maria Rilke

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  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    IN THE BEGINNING

    Ever since those wondrous days of Creation
    our Lord God sleeps: we are His sleep.
    And He accepted this in His indulgence,
    resigned to rest among the distant stars.

    Our actions stopped Him from reacting,
    for His fist-tight hand is numbed by sleep,
    and the times brought in the age of heroes
    during which our dark hearts plundered Him.

    Sometimes He appears as if tormented,
    and His body jerks as if plagued by pain;
    but these spells are always outweighed by the
    number of His countless other worlds.
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    SACRIFICE

    How my body blooms from every vein
    more fragrantly, since you appeard to me;
    look, I walk slimmer now and straighter,
    and all you do is wait-:who are you then?

    Look: I feel how I'm moving away,
    how I'm shedding my old life, leaf by leaf.
    Only your smile spreads like sheer stars
    over you and, soon now, over me.

    Whatever shines through my childhood years
    still nameless and gleaming like water,
    I will name after you at the altar,
    which is blazing brightly from your hair
    and braided gently with your breasts.
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    SENSE OF SOMETHING COMING

    I am like a flag in the center of open space.
    I sense ahead the wind which is coming, and must live
    it through.
    while the things of the world still do not move:
    the doors still close softly, and the chimneys are full
    of silence,
    the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down.

    I already know the storm, and I am troubled as the sea.
    I leap out, and fall back,
    and throw myself out, and am absolutely alone
    in the great storm.
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    LOVE SONG

    When my soul touches yours a great chord sings!

    How shall I tune it then to other things?

    O! That some spot in darkness could be found

    That does not vibrate whene'er your depths sound.

    But everything that touches you and me

    Welds us as played strings sound one melody.

    Where is the instrument whence the sounds flow?

    And whose the master-hand that holds the bow?

    O! Sweet song
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    was like that--your light, small breasts you bore,

    And his blood's current coursed like the wild sea.

    That god - who was the wanderer, the slim

    Despoiler of fair women; he - the wise,

    But sweet and glowing as your thoughts of him

    Who cast a shadow over your young limb

    While bending like your arched brows o'er your eyes.
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    THE TOMB OF A YOUNG GIRL

    We still remember! The same as of yore

    All that has happened once again must be.

    As grows a lemon-tree upon the shore
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    SYMBOLS

    From infinite longings finite deeds rise

    As fountains spring toward far-off glowing skies,

    But rushing swiftly upward weakly bend

    And trembling from their lack of power descend

    So through the falling torrent of our fears

    Our joyous force leaps like these dancing tears.
  • Jaz Alvhas quoted4 years ago
    DEATH

    Before us great Death stands

    Our fate held close within his quiet hands.

    When with proud joy we lift Life's red wine

    To drink deep of the mystic shining cup

    And ecstasy through all our being leaps--

    Death bows his head and weeps.
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