CONTENTS
Introduction:
The Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
[First Poems]:
[Evening]
[Mary Virgin]
[The Book of Pictures:]
[Presaging]
[Autumn]
[Silent Hour]
[The Angels]
[Solitude]
[Kings in Legends]
[The Knight]
[The Boy]
[Initiation]
[The Neighbour]
[Song of the Statue]
[Maidens I]
[Maidens II]
[The Bride]
[Autumnal Day]
[Moonlight Night]
[In April]
[Memories of a Childhood]
[Death]
[The Ashantee]
[Remembrance]
[Music]
[Maiden Melancholy]
[Maidens at Confirmation]
[The Woman who Loves]
[Pont du Carrousel]
[Madness]
[Lament]
[Symbols]
[New Poems]:
[Early Apollo]
[The Tomb of a Young Girl]
[The Poet]
[The Panther]
[Growing Blind]
[The Spanish Dancer]
[Offering]
[Love Song]
[Archaic Torso of Apollo]
[The Book of Hours]:
[The Book of a Monk's Life]
[I Live my Life in Circles]
[Many have Painted Her]
[In Cassocks Clad]
[Thou Anxious One]
[I Love My Life's Dark Hours]
[The Book of Pilgrimage]
[By Day Thou Art The Legend and The Dream]
[All Those Who Seek Thee]
[In a House Was One]
[Extinguish My Eyes]
[In the Deep Nights]
[The Book of Poverty and Death]
[Her Mouth]
[Alone Thou Wanderest]
[A Watcher of Thy Spaces]
POEMS OF RAINER MARIA RILKE
INTRODUCTION
Acknowledgment
To the Editors of Poetry—A magazine of Verse, and Poet Lore, the translator is indebted for permission to reprint certain poems in this book—also to the compilers of the following anthologies—Amphora II edited by Thomas Bird Mosher—The Catholic Anthology of World Poetry selected by Carl van Doren. Titlepage: Dugald Stewart Walker.