By Rainer Maria Rilke
On hand for the 1st time in one quantity, Ranier Maria Rilke’s so much cherished sequences of poems rendered via his such a lot trustworthy translator. Rilke is surely the 20 th century’s most vital and compelling poet of romantic transformation and religious quest. His poems of ecstatic identity with the realm exert perennial fascination. In Stephen Mitchell’s models of Rilke’s maximum masterpieces readers will detect an English rendering that captures the lyric depth, fluency, and succeed in of his poetry. Stephen Mitchell adheres impeccably to Rilke’s textual content, to his formal tune, and to the complexity of his idea; even as, Mitchell’s paintings has authority and gear as poetry in its personal correct.
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Horch, wie die Nacht sich muldet und hohlt. Ihr Sterne, stammt nicht von euch des Liebenden Lust zu dem Antlitz seiner Geliebten? Hat er die innige Einsicht in ihr reines Gesicht nicht aus dem reinen Gestirn? Du nicht hast ihm, wehe, nicht seine Mutter hat ihm die Bogen der Braun so zur Erwartung gespannt. Nicht an dir, ihn fiihlendes Madchen, an dir nicht lavatory seine Lippe sich zum fruchtbarern Ausdruck. Meinst du wirklich, ihn hatte dein leichter Auftritt additionally erschiittert, du, die wandelt wie Friihwind? Zwar du erschrakst ihm das Herz; doch altere Schrecken stiirzten in ihn bei dem beriihrenden AnstoB. Ruf ihn . . . du rufst ihn nicht ganz aus dunkelem Umgang. < 34 > The 3rd Elegy O ne factor to sing the liked, one other, lamentably! that hidden in charge river-god of the blood. He whom she understands from afar, her lover, what does he comprehend of that Lord of enjoyment, who frequently, out of his lonely middle, sooner than she had soothed him, frequently as if she didn't exist, streaming from, oh, what unknowable depths, might uplift his god-head, uprousing the evening to limitless uproar? Oh, the Neptune inside of our blood, oh, his poor trident! Oh, the gloomy blast of his breast from the twisted shell! Hark, how the evening grows fluted and hollowed. You stars, 10 is it now not from you that the lover’s have fun with the enjoyed one’s face arises? doesn't his intimate perception into her purest face come from the purest famous person? It was once no longer you, unluckily! It was once no longer his mom that bent his brows into such an expectant arch. to not meet yours, woman feeling him, to not meet yours did his lips start to imagine that extra fruitful curve. Do you actually think your gende strategy can have so convulsed him, you, that wander like morning-breezes? You terrified his middle, certainly; yet extra old terrors 20 rushed into him in that speedy of shattering touch. name him . . . you can’t rather name him clear of these sombre partners. 36 Duino Elegies Freilich, er w i l l , er entspringt; erleichtert gewohnt er sich in dein heimliches Herz und nimmt und beginnt sich. Aber begann er sich je? Mutter, d u machtest ihn klein, du warsts, die ihn anfing; dir battle er neu, du beugtest iiber die neuen Augen die freundliche Welt und wehrtest der fremden. Wo, ach, hin sind die Jahre, da du ihm einfach mit der schlanken Gestalt wallendes Chaos vertratst? Vieles verbargst du ihm so; das nachtlich verdachtige Zimmer machtest du harmlos, aus deinem Herzen voll Zuflucht mischtest du menschlichern Raum seinem Nacht-Raum hinzu. Nicht in die Finsternis, nein, in dein naheres Dasein hast du das Nachdicht gestellt, und es schien wie aus Freundschaft. Nirgends ein Knistern, das du nicht lachelnd erklartest, so als wuBtest du langst, w a n n sich die Diele benimmt . . . Und er horchte und linderte sich. So vieles vermochte zartlich dein Aufstehn; hinter den Schrank trat hoch im Mantel sein Schicksal, und in die Falten des Vorhangs paBte, die leicht sich verschob, seine unruhige Zukunft. 30 forty Und er selbst, wie er lag, der Erleichterte, unter schlafernden Lidern deiner leichten Gestaltung SiiBe losend in den gekosteten Vorschlaf—: s c h i e n ein Gehuteter .