Rilke's classic poems

Selected short poems by Rilke 10.

leopard

-At the Paris Botanical Garden

Its eyes were attracted by the endless iron fence.

I'm too tired to eat anything.

It seems to have only a thousand iron railings,

There is no universe behind a thousand fences.

Strong steps and gentle steps,

The pace rotates in this small circle,

As if the dance of power revolves around a center,

Great will is dizzy in the center.

Only when you look up silently. ——

So there's an immersive image,

Through the tense silence of the limbs—

Go up in smoke in my heart.

Feng zhi's translation

autumn

Lord! It is time. Summer used to be grand.

Put your shadow on the sundial,

Let the autumn wind blow across the fields.

Let the last fruit grow plump,

Give them two more days of southern climate,

Forcing them to mature,

Brew the last sweetness into spirits.

No one needs to build a house at this time.

At this time, whoever is lonely will always be lonely.

Just waking up, reading, writing long letters,

Go back and forth on the boulevard

Wandering uneasily, dancing in front of the fallen leaves.

Feng zhi's translation

Gouge out my eyes. ...

Gouge out my eyes and I can still see you,

Block my ears and I can still hear you;

I can walk beside you without feet,

I can still pray for you without a mouth.

Break my arm and I'll still hug you-

With my heart, just like with my hands.

Hold my heart, my brain will not stop;

You set my brain on fire,

I will still trust you with my blood.

Translation: Yang

All the people who are looking for you ...

Everyone looking for you

Everyone wants to test you;

Those who find you

Will bind you,

Use pictures, use gestures.

I want to understand you,

Just as the earth understands you,

As I mature,

So will your kingdom.

Mature.

I don't want it from you.

Prove your vanity.

I know: time has its own time.

Name, you have yours.

Name.

Don't show me miracles.

Make your sincere law reasonable,

Let them pass on from generation to generation

More clearly.

Translation: Yang

lonely

Loneliness is like a rain.

It rises from the sea in the twilight;

It floated from the distant wilderness,

Floating to the sky where it lived for a long time,

Came to this city from the sky.

The lonely rain never stops,

In the dark dawn of the deep lane,

When the body that gets nothing is separated,

Disappointed and sad, go their separate ways;

When people who hate each other

Must sleep together:

At this time, loneliness is like a river, covering the earth. ...

Translation: Yang