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.