Fear of the Inexplicable and Other Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rilke spoke openly and with great insight into the human experience of pain and joy, good and evil and the amalgamate of these.
Poem: Maiden Melancholy
His smile was luminously kind/Like glint of ivory enshrined,/Like a home longing undivined,
Poem: Song of The Statue
Who so loveth me that he Will give his precious life for me? I shall be set free from the stone If some one drowns for me in the sea, I shall have life, life of my own,— For life I ache. I long for the singing blood, The stone is so still and cold. […]