Poems / Rilke ; [translations by J.B. Leishman, and J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender]

Includes index.

To Monique and Blaise Briod -- From THE BOOK OF IMAGES: The boy -- Childhood -- The last supper -- Autumn day -- Autumn -- The angels -- From NEW POEMS: Early Apollo -- The poet's death -- Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes -- Roman sarcophagi -- The panther -- The swan -- The unicorn -- The gazelle -- The dog -- Parting -- Lady before the mirror -- Portrait of my father as a young man -- Requiem for a friend -- From Poems 1906 to 1926 -- From The poems of Count C.W. -- The fruit -- The raising of Lazarus -- On the sunny road -- Stars behind olives -- To Holderin -- To music -- For Count Karl Lanckoronski -- From FRENCH POEMS: Titmouse -- Let's stay by the lamp and say little -- Will I have expressed it before I leave -- From The valaisian quatrains: Landscape stopped halfway -- Before you can count ten -- Road that turns and plays -- The small clematis tumbles -- After a day of wind -- Wind that grips this country like a craftsman -- A beautiful butterfly near the earth -- From Orchards: Palm -- Summer passer-by -- The fountain -- Interior portrait -- A swan swims on the water -- All my goodbyes are said -- Cat -- Divine disgrace -- Growing old -- To the moon -- Water lily -- What survives -- Telling you all -- Fire's reflection -- No one speaks of them -- Moment between masks -- Child in red -- White lily -- Blank joy -- Narcissus -- The future -- Evening love song -- The wait -- Music -- Clouds -- THE LIFE OF MARY: The birth of Mary -- The presentation of Mary in the temple -- Annunciation to Mary -- Mary's visitation -- Joseph's suspicion -- Annunciation to the shepherds from above -- The birth of Christ -- Rest on the flight into Egypt -- Of the marriage at Cana -- Before the passion -- Pieta -- Mary at peace with the risen Lord -- On the death of Mary -- From SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: A tree ascending there. O pure transcension! -- And almost maiden-like was what drew near -- A god can do it. But can a man expect -- Step now and then, you gentle-hearted -- Raise no commemorating stone.

Does he belong here? No, his spreading -- Praising, that's it! As a praiser and blesser -- Only by him with whose lays -- Hail, the spirit able to unite! -- Banana, rounded apple, russet pear -- Our life-long neighbours, flower, vine-leaf, fuit -- Undermost he, the earth-bound -- Master, there's something new -- Change though the world may as fast -- But what shall I offer you, Master, say -- We wax for waning -- Breathing, invisible poem! -- Mirrors: no one has yet distilled with -- Flowers, whose kinship with ordering hands -- You few, the one-time sharers of childhood's treasure -- Anticipate all farewells, as were they behind you -- O fountain mouth, you mouth that can respond -- Still the god remains an ever-growing -- Where, in what ever-blisfully watered gardens -- Dancer: you transmutation -- Gold dwells somewhere at ease -- Sing those gardens, my heart -- Call me to your lonely meeting-places -- Oh, delight leaping up ever-new -- Hark, the earliest harrows striving -- How it thrills us, the bird's clear cry -- Does it exist, though, time the destroyer? -- Oh, come and go, you almost child -- Silent friend of those far from us -- THE DUINO ELEGIES -- From LETTERS TO A YOUNG POET -- R.M.R.

A collection of poems by turn-of-the-century German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.