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by
Rilke, Rainer Maria
...the
evening,
and wander the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell,
"The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke" (Random House)
Lord, it is time now,
for the summer has gone on
and gone on.
Lay your shadow along the sun-
dials and in the field
let the great wind blow free.
Command the last fruit
be ripe:
let it bow down the vine --
with perhaps two sun-warm days
more to force the last
sweetness ...Read more of this...
by
Rilke, Rainer Maria
..., and somehow
giving to all her questions just one answer:
In you, who were a child once-in you.
Translated by Stephen Mitchell...Read more of this...