Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life —
I have many brothers —
We don’t dare —
I love the dark hours —
You darkness, that I come from —
I have faith —
I am too alone —
You see, I want a lot —
Because One Man —
My life is not —
I find you —
And then that girl —
I can hardly believe —
This is my labor —
All of you undisturbed cities —
How many thousands —
Just as the watchman —
In this town —
Sometimes a man stands up —
The king of the world —
Already the ripening barberries —
It’s possible —
And the great cities —
And where is he —
THe Way In —
Childhood —
From Childhood —
Sense of Something Coming —
Loneliness —
Human Being at Night —
Sunset —
The Solitary Person —
Autumn —
Storm —
The Neighbor —
Pont du Carrousel —
The Ashantis —
Evening in Skane —
Moving Forward —
October Day —
The Man Watching —
Title Poem —
The Song the Beggar Sings —
THe Songs the Blind Man Sings —
The Song the Drunkard Sings —
The songs the Widow Sings —
The Songs the Idiot Sings —
The Songs the Orphan Sings —
The Songs the Leper Sings —
The Panther —
The Swan —
Roman Countryside —
Leda —
Archaic Torso of Apollo —
The Solitary Man —
Buddha In side the Night —
“We Must Die Because We Have Known Them” —
Mourning —
Left Out to Die —
Again, Again —
On Music —
Imaginary Biography —
Fox Fire —
Just as the Winged Energy of Delight —
A Walk —
Palm —
For Erika —
A tree rising —
It was girl, really —
A god can do it —
O you lovers that are so gentle —
Don’t bother about a stone —
Is he from our world —
To praise is the whole thing —
Where praise already is —
Only the man who has raised his strings —
You stone coffins of the ancient world.