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from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
How shall I keep my soul so that it never
touches yours? How shall I ever raise
it over you to other things? Oh, gladly
I would hide away my soul forever
in darkness, with some thing that's been lost badly;
where in some far away and silent place
it can't respond when yours is trembling madly.
What touches you and me blends us as though
the two of us were played on by a bow
that draws a single sound from double strings.
Across what bridge have we been tightly bound?
What violinist's hand makes such sweet sound?
Oh, how it sings.
Eranna an Sappho
O du wilde weite Werferin:
Wie ein Speer bei andern Dingen
lag ich bei den Meinen. Dein Erklingen
warf mich weit. Ich weiß nicht wo ich bin.
Mich kann keiner wiederbringen.
Meine Schwestern denken mich und weben,
und das Haus ist voll vertrauter Schritte.
Ich allein bin fern und fortgegeben,
und ich zittere wie eine Bitte;
denn die schöne Göttin in der Mitte
ihrer Mythen glüht und lebt mein Leben.
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