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Poems from the Book of Hours
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Poems from the Book of Hours

Poems from the Book of Hours

Overview

One of the most powerful poetry collections of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful new edition

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780811227582
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication date: 01/23/2018
Series: New Directions Paperbook , #408
Pages: 64
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), the author of Sonnets to Orpheus, Duino Elegies, and Letters to a Young Poet, was one of the greatest poets of the German language.

Table of Contents

Preface3
Now the hour bows down, it touches me, throbs11
You, neighbor God, if sometimes in the night13
If only there were stillness, full, complete15
I read it in your word, and learn it from17
I am, you anxious one. Do you not hear me19
No, my life is not this precipitous hour21
If I had grown up in a land where days23
In all these things I cherish as a brother27
We are all workmen: prentice, journeyman29
What will you do, God, when I die?31
The first word that you ever spoke was: light33
The light shouts in your tree-top, and the face35
Put out my eyes, and I can see you still37
Although, as from a prison walled with hate39
You are the future, the great sunrise red41
The sovereigns of the world are old43
All will grow great and powerful again45
Already ripening barberries grow red47
Do not be troubled, God, though they say "mine"49
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