from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
The way a morning sometimes looks through boughs
not yet in leaf (already like those days
gleaming with spring), there's nothing on his brows
that ever could obstruct the brilliant rays
all poetry can almost strike us down
with. (In his gazing, nothing shadowed lies.)
Cool temples cannot wear a laurel crown
yet. Later, from above his arch-browed eyes,
will rise that garden filled with high-stemmed roses.
Then let loose one-by-one, each petal, slowing,
will fall on lips where trembling now reposes.
His mouth is still yet, not yet used, but while
it glows, it's drinking something with its smile,
as if now into him its song were flowing.
Mädchen-Klage
Diese Neigung, in den Jahren,
da wir alle Kinder waren,
viel allein zu sein, war mild;
andern ging die Zeit im Streite,
und man hatte seine Seite,
seine Nähe, seine Weite,
einen Weg, ein Tier, ein Bild.
Und ich dachte noch, das Leben
hörte niemals auf zu geben,
daß man sich in sich besinnt.
Bin ich in mir nicht im Größten?
Will mich Meines nicht mehr trösten
und verstehen wie als Kind?
Plötzlich bin ich wie verstoßen,
und zu einem Übergroßen
wird mir diese Einsamkeit,
wenn, auf meiner Brüste Hügeln
stehend, mein Gefühl nach Flügeln
oder einem Ende schreit.
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