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Index
Cover
Title
CONTENTS
I. PROLOGUE
II. LETTERS ON LOVE
Introduction
Rilke’s Letters on Love
III. POEMS ON LOVE
Introduction
Rilke’s Poems on Love
The Seven Phallic Poems
I “The rose-gatherer grasps suddenly“
II “Summer, which you so suddenly are”
III “We close a circle”
IV “You don’t know towers”
V “How the too ample space”
VI “To what are we near?”
VII “How I called you”
German Originals
Other Love Poems
“Greek Love-Talk”
“The Lovers”
“You declare you know love’s nights?“
“……… these soft”
“Are not the nights fashioned from the sorrowful”
“What fields are fragrant as your hands?”
“Also”
“Woman’s Lament I”
“Woman’s Lament II”
“This”
“Like the pigtails of quickly grown-up girls”
“By the sun-surrounded road”
“(Since I wrote you, sap sprang free”
German Originals
IV. POEMS ON OTHER DIFFICULTIES
Introduction
Rilke’s Poems on Other Difficulties
The Poet Speaks of Praising
“Oh speak, poet, what do you do?”
German Original
The Poet Praises
“Wait…, this tastes good”
German Original
The Poems Praise
“Life and death: they are one”
“Play the deaths, the single ones, quickly”
“… Transformation”
“Strong star, which needs not the help”
“Being-silent. Who keeps innerly”
“Transform”
“Gods perhaps are still striding along”
“We are not to know why”
“Cheerful gift from the chillier”
“Everything”
“Magic”
“After such long experience let ‘house’”
“That which offers itself to us with starlight”
“The quinces”
“From the Cycle: Nights”
“Force of Gravity”
“Mausoleum”
“Somewhere blooms the blossom of parting”
“More uncovered the land”
“Give me, oh earth, pure unmingling”
“Ah, not being sundered”
“The voices”
“Now it would be time that gods should step out”
“Gong”
“If you’d attempt this, however”
“Music”
“Do you also ponder”
“and all”
“Come you, you last one, whom I avow”
German Originals
V. BLOOD-REMEMBERING
VI. THE DRAGON-PRINCESS
VII. THE DIFFICULTY OF DYING: RILKE’S SELF-COMPOSED EPITAPH
VIII. EPILOGUE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ALSO BY RAINER MARIA RILKE
Copyright
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