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Late Autumn in Venice

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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Summary

The city now no longer drifts like bait

to catch the rising days. Palaces clink

against your glance (they glint and scintillate,

brittle-bright). Summer hangs upon the brink

from gardens — marionettes in tired bunches,

all upside down, worn out, done in.

But from the ground and old woods’ bony branches,

volition wakes. As if told to begin

doubling his ships, the General of the Seas

commands the Arsenal, which more than readily

works overnight, to tar the morning breeze

with galleys rowing, and with oars that batter

the daybreak, and with dawning flags that flutter,

seizing the great wind, radiant and deadly.

San Marco

Venedig

In diesem Innern, das wie ausgehöhlt

sich wölbt und wendet in den goldnen Smalten,

rundkantig, glatt, mit Köstlichkeit geölt,

ward dieses Staates Dunkelheit gehalten

und heimlich aufgehäuft, als Gleichgewicht

des Lichtes, das in allen seinen Dingen

sich so vermehrte, daß sie fast vergingen.

Und plötzlich zweifelst du: vergehn sie nicht?

und drängst zurück die harte Galerie,

die, wie ein Gang im Bergwerk, nah am Glanz

der Wölbung hängt; und du erkennst die heile

Helle des Ausblicks aber irgendwie

wehmütig messend ihre müde Weile

am nahen Überstehn des Viergespanns.

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New Poems , pp. 295 - 296
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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