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Rainer Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926 / Prague / Czech Republic)
Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
| 1. | A Sybil | 4/3/2010 |
| 2. | A Walk | 1/13/2003 |
| 3. | Abishag | 1/3/2003 |
| 4. | Adam | 1/3/2003 |
| 5. | Again and Again | 1/3/2003 |
| 6. | Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love | 1/13/2003 |
| 7. | Along the Sun-Drenched Roadside | 1/3/2003 |
| 8. | Archaic Torso of Apollo | 1/3/2003 |
| 9. | As Once the Winged Energy of Delight | 1/3/2003 |
| 10. | Autumn | 1/3/2003 |
| 11. | Autumn Day | 1/3/2003 |
| 12. | Before Summer Rain | 1/3/2003 |
| 13. | Black Cat | 1/3/2003 |
| 14. | Blank Joy | 1/3/2003 |
| 15. | Buddha in Glory | 1/3/2003 |
| 16. | Child in Red | 1/3/2003 |
| 17. | Childhood | 1/3/2003 |
| 18. | Death | 1/3/2003 |
| 19. | Dedication | 1/3/2003 |
| 20. | Dedication to M. | 1/3/2003 |
from The Tenth Elegy
Ah, but the City of Pain: how strange its streets are:
the false silence of sound drowning sound,
and there--proud, brazen, effluence from the mold of emptiness--
the gilded hubbub, the bursting monument.
How an Angel would stamp out their market of solaces,
set up alongside their church bought to order:
clean and closed and woeful as a post office on Sunday.
Outside, though, there's always the billowing edge of the fair.
Swings of Freedom! High-divers and Jugglers of Zeal!
