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Epitaph of a Young Girl

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Summary

We still remember, just as if once more

these things must live in their entirety.

As if you were a lime tree on the shore,

you bore your little breasts into the roar,

the rushing flood, of his divinity:

— that god's.

He was that slender-wrought

exile who pampers women. How he glows,

as sweetly and as warmly as your thought.

Above your flanks, the shadow he has brought

now bows and arches like your young girl's brows.

Opfer

O wie blüht mein Leib aus jeder Ader

duftender, seitdem ich dich erkenn;

sieh, ich gehe schlanker und gerader,

und du wartest nur —: wer bist du denn?

Sieh: ich fühle, wie ich mich entferne,

wie ich Altes, Blatt um Blatt, verlier.

Nur dein Lächeln steht wie lauter Sterne

über dir und bald auch über mir.

Alles was durch meine Kinderjahre

namenlos noch und wie Wasser glänzt,

will ich nach dir nennen am Altare,

der entzündet ist von deinem Haare

und mit deinen Brüsten leicht bekränzt.

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New Poems , pp. 15 - 16
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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