num_pages: 224
description: This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.Contents:I live my life --I have many brothers --We don't dare --I love the dark hours --You darkness, that I come from --I have faith --I am too alone --You see, I want a lot --Because One Man --My life is not --I find you --And then that girl --I can hardly believe --This is my labor --All of you undisturbed cities --How many thousands --Just as the watchman --In this town --Sometimes a man stands up --The king of the world --Already the ripening barberries --It's possible --And the great cities --And where is he --THe Way In --Childhood --From Childhood --Sense of Something Coming --Loneliness --Human Being at Night --Sunset --The Solitary Person --Autumn --Storm --The Neighbor --Pont du Carrousel --The Ashantis --Evening in Skane --Moving Forward --October Day --The Man Watching --Title Poem --The Song the Beggar Sings --THe Songs the Blind Man Sings --The Song the Drunkard Sings --The songs the Widow Sings --The Songs the Idiot Sings --The Songs the Orphan Sings --The Songs the Leper Sings --The Panther --The Swan --Roman Countryside --Leda --Archaic Torso of Apollo --The Solitary Man --Buddha In side the Night --"We Must Die Because We Have Known Them" --Mourning --Left Out to Die --Again, Again --On Music --Imaginary Biography --Fox Fire --Just as the Winged Energy of Delight --A Walk --Palm --For Erika --A tree rising --It was girl, really --A god can do it --O you lovers that are so gentle --Don't bother about a stone --Is he from our world --To praise is the whole thing --Where praise already is --Only the man who has raised his strings --You stone coffins of the ancient world.
language: Multiple languages
title: Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
titlecomplete: Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke
genres: Classics, Philosophy, Religion, Fiction, German Literature, Germany, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry, Czech Literature
ratings_count: 15264
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: Schlegel-Tieck Prize
category: Ian Crockatt
publisher: Harper & Row