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The Lute

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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I am the lute. If you would recreate

my body in each lovely, arching stripe,

then speak as you would speak of a fig ripe

and rounded full. Exaggerate

the dark you see in me — darkness I share

with Tullia. In her deepest privacy,

there was not much, and so her brightened hair

was like a light-filled ballroom. Sometimes she

would take into her face a tunefulness

my body gave — a certain tone.

And then, against her yielding, I would press

until my inmost self was in her own.

Der Abenteuerer

I

Wenn er unter jene, welche waren,

trat: der Plötzliche, der schien,

war ein Glanz wie von Gefahren

in dem ausgesparten Raum um ihn,

den er lächelnd überschritt, um einer

Herzogin den Fächer aufzuheben:

diesen warmen Fächer, den er eben

wollte fallen sehen. Und wenn keiner

mit ihm eintrat in die Fensternische

(wo die Parke gleich ins Träumerische

stiegen, wenn er nur nach ihnen wies),

ging er lässig an die Kartentische

und gewann. Und unterließ

nicht, die Blicke alle zu behalten,

die ihn zweifelnd oder zärtlich trafen,

und auch die in Spiegel fielen, galten.

Er beschloß, auch heute nicht zu schlafen,

wie die letzte lange Nacht, und bog

einen Blick mit seinem rücksichtslosen

welcher war: als hätte er von Rosen

Kinder, die man irgendwo erzog.

II

In den Tagen — (nein, es waren keine),

da die Flut sein unterstes Verlies

ihm bestritt, als wär es nicht das seine,

und ihn, steigend, an die Steine

der daran gewöhnten Wölbung stieß,

fiel ihm plötzlich einer von den Namen

wieder ein, die er vor Zeiten trug.

Und er wußte wieder: Leben kamen,

wenn er lockte; wie im Flug

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New Poems , pp. 301 - 302
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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