1912: Love Song | Rainer Maria Rilke

[exceptindreams]

"Liebes-Lied

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[nightspore]

Missing last line? "O sweet song."

[exceptindreams]

Fixed. Thank you. :)

[seraphcelene]

I love this poem. Although, my favorite translation is this one:

How shall I hold my soul, that it may not
be touching yours? How shall I lift it then
above you to where other things are waiting?
Ah, gladly would I lodge it, all-forgot,
with some lost thing the dark is isolating
on some remote and silent spot that, when
your depths vibrate, is not itself vibrating.
You and me-all that lights upon us, though,
brings us together like a fiddle-bow
drawing one voice from two strings it glides along.
Across what instruments have we been spanned?
And what violinist holds us in his hand?
O sweetest song.

Alas, I have no idea who translated it.

[a_prettywar]

This is so beautiful. I don't often comment, but I always read the poems you post. Thank you.