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Love Song

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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How shall I keep my soul so that it never

touches yours? How shall I ever raise

it over you to other things? Oh, gladly

I would hide away my soul forever

in darkness, with some thing that's been lost badly;

where in some far away and silent place

it can't respond when yours is trembling madly.

What touches you and me blends us as though

the two of us were played on by a bow

that draws a single sound from double strings.

Across what bridge have we been tightly bound?

What violinist's hand makes such sweet sound?

Oh, how it sings.

Eranna an Sappho

O du wilde weite Werferin:

Wie ein Speer bei andern Dingen

lag ich bei den Meinen. Dein Erklingen

warf mich weit. Ich weiß nicht wo ich bin.

Mich kann keiner wiederbringen.

Meine Schwestern denken mich und weben,

und das Haus ist voll vertrauter Schritte.

Ich allein bin fern und fortgegeben,

und ich zittere wie eine Bitte;

denn die schöne Göttin in der Mitte

ihrer Mythen glüht und lebt mein Leben.

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New Poems , pp. 7 - 8
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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