Selected poems / Rilke ; translated with an introduction by J.B. Leishman
Rilke, Rainer Maria
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Add to basketVery good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean. Series; Penguin modern European poets. Physical description; 93 pages ; 18 cm. Contents; "The day is coming when from God the Tree" -- Childhood -- Autumn Day -- Autumn -- Annunciation -- The Spectator -- Joshua's Council -- The Departure of the Prodigal Son -- The Olive Garden -- The Poet's Death -- The Cathedral -- The Panther -- The Donor -- Roman Sarcophagi -- A Feminine Destiny -- Going Blind -- In a Foreign Park -- Parting -- The Courtesan -- The Steps of the Orangery -- The Merry-go-Round -- Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes -- The Island of the Sirens -- The Death of the Beloved -- Adam -- Eve -- The Site of the Fire -- The Group -- Song of the Sea -- The Parks, II -- Late Autumn in Venice -- Falconry -- Portrait of a Lady of the Eighties -- The Old Lady -- The Stranger -- The Abduction -- The Bachelor -- The Apple Orchard -- The Dog -- For Wolf Graf von Kalckreuth -- The First Elegy -- The Ninth Elegy -- VII. "Praising, that's it! As a praiser and blesser" -- IX. "Only by him with whose lays" -- XXIII. "Only when flight shall soar" -- XXVI. "You that could sound till the end, though, immortal accorder" -- IV. "This is the creature there has never been" -- X. "Long will machinery menace the whole of our treasure" -- XV. "O fountain mouth, you mouth that can respond" -- XVII. "Where, in what ever-blissfully watered gardens upon what trees" -- The Raising of Lazarus -- The Spirit Ariel -- "Shatter me, music, with rhythmical fury!" -- "Behind the innocent trees" -- The Great Night -- "Beloved, lost to begin with, never greeted" -- "Exposed on the heart's mountains. Look, how small there!" -- "Time and again, however well we know the landscape of love" -- To Music -- From the Poems of Count C.W. -- "Meaningful word, "inclination"!" -- "Strongest star, not needing to await" -- The Fruit -- Early Spring -- "Gods, for all we can tell, stride as richly bestowing" -- "The sap is mounting back from that unseenness" -- "On the sunny road, within the hollow" -- "The one birds plunge through's not that trusty space" -- For Count Karl Lanckoronski -- Epitaph. Subjects; German poetry ; Translations into English. English poetry Translations from German. German poetry. 3 Kg.
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