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Persian Heliotrope

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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Perhaps it seems to you the rose's praise

too loudly lauds your lady. Take this, then —

the cunning, knitted, Persian herb — and when

the bulbul cries those charms that she displays,

let heliotrope's insistent whispering win.

(He sings her in her favored spot,

but does not know her.) Look: sweet phrases in

the night grow close by tying tight their knot,

and by the vowels’ waking violet scent

across the silent bed beneath its tent.

So disparate stars form silken clusters covering

the quilted tree-tops over which they're hovering;

they stir the stillness till it seems all one

almost — vanilla mixed with cinnamon.

Schlaflied

Einmal wenn ich dich verlier,

wirst du schlafen können, ohne

daß ich wie eine Lindenkrone

mich verflüstre über dir?

Ohne daß ich hier wache und

Worte, beinah wie Augenlider,

auf deine Brüste, auf deine Glieder

niederlege, auf deinen Mund.

Ohne daß ich dich verschließ

und dich allein mit Deinem lasse,

wie einen Garten mit einer Masse

von Melissen und Sternanis?

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New Poems , pp. 347 - 348
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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