When I lose you, someday,
how will you sleep without me
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: French, imagery, love poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, sleep, translation, W. D. Snodgrass
When I lose you, someday,
how will you sleep without me
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: French, imagery, love poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, sleep, translation, W. D. Snodgrass
Extinguish my eyes, I’ll go on seeing you.
Seal my ears, I’ll go on hearing you.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, love poetry, mystic, Rainer Maria Rilke, religion, translation
I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough
to truly consecrate the hour.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: imagery, love poetry, mystic, philosophy, Rainer Maria Rilke, translation