Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
A Walk
... it has inner light, even from a distance-and charges us, even if we do not reach it, ...
Evening Love Song
... The new moon beginsa new chapter of our nights, ...
Rememberance
... And you wait, keep waiting for that one thing ...
Woman In Love
... and where does the night beginI could think that everything ...
Death
... entry in Rilke's notebook, less than two weeks before his ...
Archaic Torso Of Apollo
... and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:would not, from all the borders of itself, ...
Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love
... and the little churchyard there, with its sorrowing names, ...
To Say Before Going To Sleep
... in the house who knew: the night outside was cold ...
You, You Only, Exist
... but if you take it up and up and up: look: ...
Sunset
... that turns to a star each night and climbs--leaving you (it is impossible to untangle the threads) ...
The Future
... Future, who won't wait for you ...
Moving Forward
... I feel closer to what language can't reach ...
To Lou Andreas-Salome
... and you, love, had wildest childhood over my heart ...
Music
... whatever was given,so they abandoned me ...
Water Lily
... The ripple of water, the shade of the sky ...
