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“Muse! muse! Daughter of Heaven Why then do you leave? Oh! listen to my plea Without you life has no poetry Come back. Without you I am mute and blind I see only a glimmer I hear only a murmur […]

—White writing tablet of homey visage Stretched out impatiently You itch for my caresses I’m tired. My head is empty And my hand is numb My spirit deadened My soul strayed away. …………………………………. No. I’ll not scratch you tonight. I’m […]

Souls of my compatriots Following your chagrin tonight Through the paths of the Mountains On the deep roads of the Forest And on the beaches of the Sea, Souls of my compatriots Wandering in the black night Tonight you will […]

I went for a walk in the soft night All by myself in the moonlight, Listening quietly to the song of the Earth. The Nightingale long since had hushed, The rosebush Crickets were all asleep, The Heath is peaceful when […]

…Most lovely your postcard: Boats in a harbor of Portugal. How lovely another card: An old castle in Scotland. And then that one with the hairy cows: A lovely picture form the Isle of Skye. And that blue one? And […]

I know why Lellig has Dug in so close to the water: Too constrained by her Mama Against a treacherous world! You must not my Lellig Play too close to the water, For the stream, little one, Is deep and […]

—There are four fine souls I know Oh! Four distinguished children! Who run around high and low Throughout the year’s four seasons. They jump in ditches They fill up their shoes They clamber to treetops Oh! Nothing’s to be done […]

Not long ago behind the town square There was a lovely beech tree Whose bark bore deeply engraved Letters and numbers For all the men of the village Had a long-standing tradition To mark their names in the tree Before […]

—Sun, why are you so late getting up? And why is your eye so red? Did you have a nightmare And weep in your sleep? —I’ve neither slept nor dreamt. During the night I’ve kept watch, While the West slept […]

…The earth trembles, trembles Trembles with cold? Trembles with rage? Or with fear? Or with hunger? The earth trembles, trembles Like a drunkard? Or someone drugged? The earth trembles with terror With terror at Man At the science of Man […]