Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-7479d7b7d-767nl Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-13T18:41:42.188Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

The Reader

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Get access

Summary

Who can know him — this one, whose face has dropped

down from its being to some other one

the rapid turning pages can alone —

sometimes — abruptly interrupt?

Even his mother lacks all certainty:

is he the shadowed one who reads, soaked through?

And we who had the time to spare — what do

we know of how he fades away, till he

looks up, fatigued and lifting with his eyes

whatever's happened in that book down there?

His look, which does not take, instead supplies

a nudge against this world so fully-finished:

like children playing — quiet, solitaire

who suddenly must meet that world once closed.

And yet his features, which have been composed,

remain the same and undiminished.

Der Apfelgarten

Borgeby-Gård

Komm gleich nach dem Sonnenuntergange,

sieh das Abendgrün des Rasengrunds;

ist es nicht, als hätten wir es lange

angesammelt und erspart in uns,

um es jetzt aus Fühlen und Erinnern,

neuer Hoffnung, halbvergeßnem Freun,

noch vermischt mit Dunkel aus dem Innern,

in Gedanken vor uns hinzustreun

unter Bäume wie von Dürer, die

das Gewicht von hundert Arbeitstagen

in den überfüllten Früchten tragen,

dienend, voll Geduld, versuchend, wie

das, was alle Maße übersteigt,

noch zu heben ist und hinzugeben,

wenn man willig, durch ein langes Leben

nur das Eine will und wächst und schweigt?

Type
Chapter
Information
New Poems , pp. 363 - 364
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
×