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The Rose Interior

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

For such an inner place, where is

an outer? Name the wound or ache

on which such linen lays

its bandage. In its mirror lie what skies,

deep in that inland lake

of opened and unworried roses —

These beings? See how slack,

how loose, are all their poses?

Relaxed, they're lying back

as if no single trembling hand could spill them.

They hold back at their own full brim,

but barely; many let their cup

flow spilling over, filling up,

with all this inner room,

the days, which keep on closing in

completely, filled up to the top,

till all the summer is a room within

a dream — a room within a dream.

Damen-Bildnis aus den Achtziger-Jahren

Wartend stand sie an den schwergerafften

dunklen Atlasdraperien,

die ein Aufwand falscher Leidenschaften

über ihr zu ballen schien;

seit den noch so nahen Mädchenjahren

wie mit einer anderen vertauscht:

müde unter den getürmten Haaren,

in den Rüschen-Roben unerfahren

und von allen Falten wie belauscht

bei dem Heimweh und dem schwachen Planen,

wie das Leben weiter werden soll:

anders, wirklicher, wie in Romanen,

hingerissen und verhängnisvoll, —

daß man etwas erst in die Schatullen

legen dürfte, um sich im Geruch

von Erinnerungen einzulullen;

daß man endlich in dem Tagebuch

einen Anfang fände, der nicht schon

unterm Schreiben sinnlos wird und Lüge,

und ein Blatt von einer Rose trüge

in dem schweren leeren Medaillon,

welches liegt auf jedem Atemzug.

Daß man einmal durch das Fenster winkte;

diese schlanke Hand, die neuberingte,

hätte dran für Monate genug.

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New Poems , pp. 327 - 328
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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