from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Venice's sun will be the golden changer
my hair awaits — an alchemy that now
comes out in all its luster. See? Each brow
is like an arched Venetian bridge. Look how
they arc, to lead away from silent danger
in eyes that deal in secret with the black
canals (so that those waters rise, fall back,
and transform in them). He is on the rack
when once a man has seen me with my pet,
because my hand, in some distracted pauses,
rests on that dog — a hand untouched by fire,
invulnerable, bejewelled. And boys from higher
families — the best young hopes of wealthy houses —
are as if poisoned at these lips still wet.
Die Treppe der Orangerie
Versailles
Wie Könige die schließlich nur noch schreiten
fast ohne Ziel, nur um von Zeit zu Zeit
sich den Verneigenden auf beiden Seiten
zu zeigen in des Mantels Einsamkeit —:
so steigt, allein zwischen den Balustraden,
die sich verneigen schon seit Anbeginn,
die Treppe: langsam und von Gottes Gnaden
und auf den Himmel zu und nirgends hin;
als ob sie allen Folgenden befahl
zurückzubleiben, — so daß sie nicht wagen
von ferne nachzugehen; nicht einmal
die schwere Schleppe durfte einer tragen.
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