Nothing New

Classic writing, modern delivery

Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems

51 poems · ~7 weeks at one per day

The essential Rilke in English—from the spare lyrics of The Book of Pictures and the famous object-poems of New Poems (The Panther, Archaic Torso of Apollo) to the mystical Book of Hours

Evening

The bleak fields are asleep,
My heart alone wakes;
The evening in the harbour
Down his red sails takes.

Night, guardian of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.