Uncollected Poems Bilingual Edition

Between theNew Poemsof 1907 and 1908 and his death in 1926, Rainer Maria Rilke published only two major volumes of poetry--theDuino Elegiesand theSonnets to Orpheus, both in 1923. But during this period he was writing verse continually, often prolifically--in letters, in guest books, in presentation copies, and chiefly in the pocket-books he always carried with him. This body of uncollected work exceeds five hundred pieces: finished poems of great poise and brilliance, headlong statements that hurtle through their subjects, haunting "fragments," and short bursts that arc into the unpursuable. A remarkable number of them are among Rilke's finest poems. Snow's selection of more than a hundred of these little-known works distills the best of the uncollected poetry while offering a wide enough choice to convey Rilke's variety and industry during the years he wrote them.Uncollected Poemswill lead students, scholars, and other readers to a fresh--and more accurate--understanding of this great poet's life and work.

Edward Snow has received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for his many renderings of Rilke. The author of A Study of Vermeer and Inside Breughel, he teaches at Rice University.

Introduction
Forget, forget	p. 3
You don't know nights of love?	p. 5
Sharp castle-break	p. 7
Moonlit Night	p. 9
Judith's Return	p. 11
To Lou Andreas-Salome	p. 13
Pearls roll away	p. 17
Ah, as we prayed for human help	p. 19
O the curves of my longing through the cosmos	p. 21
Come when you should	p. 23
I, knower	p. 27
The almond trees in bloom	p. 29
The Spanish Trilogy	p. 31
The Raising of Lazarus	p. 37
The Spirit Ariel	p. 41
Straining so hard against the strength of night	p. 45
We don't know what we spend	p. 49
Long you must suffer	p. 51
The hawthorn	p. 53
Unknowing before the heavens of my life	p. 55
Overflowing heavens of squandered stars	p. 57
Narcissus [I]	p. 59
Narcissus [II]	p. 61
Christ's Descent into Hell	p. 65
Now we wake up with our memory	p. 67
Thinking you	p. 69
Assault me, music, with rhythmic fury!	p. 71
Behind the innocent trees	p. 73
Head of Amenophis IV in Berlin	p. 75
The way that bright planet, the moon	p. 77
Tears, tears that break out of me	p. 79
Once I took you face into / my hands	p. 81
The Great Night	p. 83
Looking up from my book	p. 85
You the beloved / lost in advance	p. 87
See the carefree insect	p. 89
Turning	p. 91
Lament	p. 95
"One Must Die Because One Has Known Them"	p. 97
Almost as on the last day	p. 99
To Holderlin	p. 101
On the mountains of the heart cast out to die	p. 105
Again and again	p. 107
Ah misery, my mother tears me down	p. 109
The Death of Moses	p. 111
Death	p. 113
The Words of the Lord to John on Patmos	p. 115
The body's crossroads	p. 121
Now the stag becomes part of earth	p. 123
Gray love-snakes	p. 125
The transformed speaks only to relinquishers	p. 127
To Music	p. 129
God won't be lived like some light morning	p. 131
The Doll. Temptation!	p. 133
To have come through it	p. 135
The Hand	p. 137
As long as you catch self-thrown things	p. 139
... When will, when will, when will it be enough	p. 141
Antistrophes	p. 143
We, in the grappling nights	p. 147
My shy moonshadow	p. 149
Vase Painting	p. 151
Odette R....	p. 153
Imaginary Career	p. 155
Lachrymatory	p. 157
We're only mouth	p. 159
Heart's swing	p. 161
Play the deaths swiftly through	p. 165
For Max Picard	p. 167
That we lose nothing	p. 169
For Hans Carossa	p. 171
The Magician	p. 173
Will-o'-the-Wisps	p. 175
As once the winged energy of delight	p. 177
Early Spring	p. 179
Transience	p. 181
A Walk	p. 183
Do you still remember	p. 185
Wild Rosebush	p. 187
By the sun-accustomed street	p. 189
What birds plunge through	p. 191
Unsteady scales of life	p. 193
World was in the face of the beloved	p. 195
Ah, adrift in the air	p. 197
A furrow in my brain	p. 199
Palm of the Hand	p. 201
Night. Oh you face against my face	p. 203
Gravity	p. 205
Mausoleum	p. 207
Somewhere the flower of farewell blooms	p. 209
More unconcealed the land	p. 211
Autumn	p. 213
O bright gleam of a shy mirror image!	p. 215
... When from the merchant's hand	p. 217
Ah, not to be cut off	p. 219
Undeterrable	p. 221
Now it is time that gods	p. 223
Rose, O pure contradiction	p. 225
Gong [I]	p. 227
Idol	p. 229
Gong [II]	p. 231
But if you'd try this	p. 233
Earlier, how often, we'd remain	p. 235
The birdcalls begin their praise	p. 237
Brother body is poor	p. 239
Garden, by approaching rains	p. 241
Elegy	p. 243
Full Power	p. 247
Arrival	p. 249
Come, you last thing	p. 251
Notes	p. 255
Index of titles and first lines in German	p. 259
Index of titles and first lines in English	p. 263
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