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Woman in Love

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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My window's there. Just now,

what softness I woke in!

(I was afloat somehow.)

How far does my life go,

and where does night begin?

I could believe that all

is mine that wraps me round —

clear as the deepest crystal ball,

yet dark, without a sound.

And I could hold the stars inside

me; that's how large my heart

seems. Gladly, free of pride,

again it let one part

whom maybe I'd begun

to love, perhaps to hold.

My gazing fate is one

unwritten, strange, and cold.

Oh, why have I been planted

in this endless black

that's almost meadow-scented,

but shunted forth and back;

though calling out, afraid

someone will hear that cry;

fated to be destroyed

in someone else and die?

Das Rosen-Innere

Wo ist zu diesem Innen

ein Außen? Auf welches Weh

legt man solches Linnen?

Welche Himmel spiegeln sich drinnen

in dem Binnensee

dieser offenen Rosen,

dieser sorglosen, sieh:

wie sie lose im Losen

liegen, als könnte nie

eine zitternde Hand sie verschütten.

Sie können sich selber kaum

halten; viele ließen

sich überfüllen und fließen

über von Innenraum

in die Tage, die immer

voller und voller sich schließen,

bis der ganze Sommer ein Zimmer

wird, ein Zimmer in einem Traum.

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New Poems , pp. 325 - 326
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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