A god can do it. But will you tell me how [ ... ]
Sonnets to Orpheus
Song Cycle by Eric Moe (b. 1954)
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Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), no title, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 3
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O you tender ones, walk now and then [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), no title, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 4
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This text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.Confirmed with Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus; A Dual Language Edition, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2014, p.89
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Only in the realm of Praising, should Lament [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 8
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Wait..., that tastes good.... But already it's gone [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 15
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But you, divine poet, you who sang on till the end [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1922, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 1, no. 26
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Will transformation. Oh be inspired for the flame [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), no title, copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 12
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How deeply the cry of a bird can move us [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
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- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 26
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Silent friend of many distances, feel [ ... ]
Text Authorship:
- by Stephen Mitchell (b. 1943), copyright ©
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Die Sonette an Orpheus 2, no. 29
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