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Song Of The Sea


By Rainer Maria Rilke



 

(Capri, Piccola Marina)

Timeless sea breezes,
sea-wind of the night:
you come for no one;
if someone should wake,
he must be prepared
how to survive you.

Timeless sea breezes,
that for aeons have
blown ancient rocks,
you are purest space
coming from afar...

Oh, how a fruit-bearing
fig tree feels your coming
high up in the moonlight.




Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926) is considered to be one of modern Germany's greatest lyric poets. He is known as creator of the 'object poem' where he tried to evoke the essence of physical objects and 'the silence of their concentrated reality'. His most famous works are Duineser Elegien and Die Sonette an Orpheus, both published in 1823 and after which Rilke declared he had produced his best work as a writer.


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