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    Poems

    By Jessie Lemont and Rainer Maria Rilke

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Poems - Jessie Lemont

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Poems, by Rainer Maria Rilke

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Poems

      Author: Rainer Maria Rilke

      Translator: Jessie Lemont

      Release Date: January 17, 2012 [EBook #38594]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS ***

      Produced by Andrea Ball and Marc D'Hooghe at

      http://www.freeliterature.org (Images generously made

      available by the Internet Archive)

      POEMS

      by

      RAINER MARIA RILKE

      Translated by Jessie Lamont

      With an Introduction by H.T.

      New York

      Tobias A. Wright

      1918

      TO THE MEMORY OF

      AUGUSTE RODIN

      THROUGH WHOM I CAME TO KNOW

      RAINER MARIA RILKE

      POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE

      INTRODUCTION

      Acknowledgment

      To the Editors of Poetry—A magazine of Verse, and Poet Lore, the translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this book—also to the compilers of the following anthologies—Amphora II edited by Thomas Bird Mosher—The Catholic Anthology of World Poetry selected by Carl van Doren.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction:

      The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

      First Poems:

      Evening

      Mary Virgin

      The Book of Pictures:

      Presaging

      Autumn

      Silent Hour

      The Angels

      Solitude

      Kings in Legends

      The Knight

      The Boy

      Initiation

      The Neighbour

      Song of the Statue

      Maidens I

      Maidens II

      The Bride

      Autumnal Day

      The Book of Pictures:

      Moonlight Night

      In April

      Memories of a Childhood

      Death

      The Ashantee

      Remembrance

      Music

      Maiden Melancholy

      Maidens at Confirmation

      The Woman who Loves

      Pont du Carrousel

      Madness

      Lament

      Symbols

      New Poems:

      Early Apollo

      The Tomb of a Young Girl

      The Poet

      The Panther

      Growing Blind

      The Spanish Dancer

      Offering

      Love Song

      Archaic Torso of Apollo

      The Book of Hours: The Book of a Monk's Life

      I Live my Life in Circles

      Many have Painted Her

      In Cassocks Clad

      Thou Anxious One

      I Love My Life's Dark Hours

      The Book of Pilgrimage

      By Day Thou Art The Legend and The Dream

      All Those Who Seek Thee

      In a House Was One

      Extinguish My Eyes

      In the Deep Nights

      The Book of Poverty and Death

      Her Mouth

      Alone Thou Wanderest

      A Watcher of Thy Spaces

      THE POETRY OF RAINER MARIA RILKE

      εἶσὶ γὰρ οὖν, οἳ ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς κυοῦσιν

      Plato

      The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritual physiognomy, its ultimate and lasting expression.

      The process of Art is on the one hand sensuous, the conception having for its basis the fineness of organization of the senses; and on the other hand it is severely scientific, the value of the creation being dependent upon the craftsmanship, the mastery over the tool, the technique.

      Art, like Nature, its great and only reservoir for all time past and all time to come, ever strives for elimination and selection. It is severe and aristocratic in the application of its laws and impervious to appeal to serve other than its own aims. Its purpose is the symbolization of Life. In its sanctum there reigns the silence of vast accomplishment, the serene, final, and imperturbable solitude which is the ultimate criterion of all great things created.

      To speak of Poetry is to speak of the most subtle, the most delicate, and the most accurate instrument by which to measure Life.

      Poetry is reality's essence visioned and made manifest by one endowed with a perception acutely sensitive to sound, form, and colour, and gifted with a power to shape into rhythmic and rhymed verbal symbols the reaction to Life's phenomena. The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. In this act of creation he serves eternity.

      Poetry, in especial lyrical poetry, must be acknowledged the supreme art,

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