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Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

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To Music

... ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts ...

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The Grown-Up

... the first white veil descended, gliding softlyover her opened face, almost opaque there, ...

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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy

... Have you thought of Gaspara Stampa sufficiently:that any girl abandoned by her lover may feel ...

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Black Cat

... will be absorbed and utterly disappear:just as a raving madman, when nothing else ...

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Sense Of Something Coming

... of silence, the windows do not rattle yet, and the dust still lies down ...

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Fire's Reflection

... Perhaps it's no more than the fire's reflection ...

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The Wait

... and, leaning out the carriagedoor, we vainly contemplate ...

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Greek Love-Talk

... since as glowingly shining they've ripened, ...

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As Once The Winged Energy Of Delight

... Take your practiced powers and stretch them out ...

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Going Blind

... I saw her. She was moving far behindthe others, absorbed, like someone who will soon ...

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Growing Old

... Oh my rustic friends!I look for what was so good for you ...

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Herr, Es Ist Zeit

... die Winde los.Befiehl den letzten Früchten voll zu sein ...

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Heartbeat

... and are transformed in being and in countenance ...

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Child In Red

... Sometimes she walks through the village in her ...

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Ignorant Before The Heavens Of My Life

... except this one, so that my heart grows used to ...