Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-rvbq7 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T18:52:59.840Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Marble Cart

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Get access

Summary

Paris

What was immovable, now hitched to seven

draft horses, moves by steps — changed utterly.

Its ingrown, ancient pride has come to be

exposed. For marble nothing yet could leaven

lingers. All men see, and it is known,

no matter what the name. Like Cyrano

on stage — as if it were some tragic hero —

it acts: the primal pressure's clearly shown.

Abruptly then, it breaks through dammed-up day

and enters into its own being wholly,

as if in triumph, some Great Man drew slowly

near at last, with captives out in front,

who trudge on ever closer, sweat, and grunt,

and stop the world from going on its way.

Buddha

Schon von ferne fühlt der fremde scheue

Pilger, wie es golden von ihm träuft;

so als hätten Reiche voller Reue

ihre Heimlichkeiten aufgehäuft.

Aber näher kommend wird er irre

vor der Hoheit dieser Augenbraun:

denn das sind nicht ihre Trinkgeschirre

und die Ohrgehänge ihrer Fraun.

Wüßte einer denn zu sagen, welche

Dinge eingeschmolzen wurden, um

dieses Bild auf diesem Blumenkelche

aufzurichten: stummer, ruhiggelber

als ein goldenes und rundherum

auch den Raum berührend wie sich selber.

Type
Chapter
Information
New Poems , pp. 121 - 122
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×