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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke — better known as Rainer Maria Rilke — was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose.

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Song Of The Sea
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Sense Of Something Coming
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A Walk 563 ViewsRate it
Put Out My Eyes
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Moving Forward
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The Swan
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Buddha in Glory
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Palm
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Water Lily
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What Birds Plunge Through Is Not The Intimate Space
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You, Darkness 475 ViewsRate it
Blank Joy
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Heartbeat
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Fire's Reflection 462 ViewsRate it
Extinguish Thou My Eyes
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Narcissus
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Solemn Hour 450 ViewsRate it
The Sisters 447 ViewsRate it
The Wait
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Falling Stars
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What Fields Are As Fragrant As Your Hands?
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Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love
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World Was In The Face Of The Beloved 414 ViewsRate it
You, you only, exist
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Telling You All 402 ViewsRate it
My Life
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Autumn
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Little Tear-Vase 371 ViewsRate it
Fall Day
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: XIX 365 ViewsRate it
The Panther
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Duino Elegies: The First Elegy
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To Music
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Again and Again
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The Future 264 ViewsRate it
Sacrifice
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As Once the Winged Energy of Delight
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Fear of the Inexplicable
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The Lovers 251 ViewsRate it
Lament
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Early Spring
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The Song Of The Beggar
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What Survives
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Evening Love Song
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Childhood
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Song Of The Orphan
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Ignorant Before the Heavens of My Life
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The Neighbor
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Along the Sun-Drenched Roadside
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Slumber Song
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Child in Red
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Going Blind
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Portrait of my Father as a Young Man 174 ViewsRate it
Death
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I Am, O Anxious One
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Abishag
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Night (O you whose countenance)
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The Spanish Dancer
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Interior Portrait
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I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone
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The Unicorn
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Encounter In The Chestnut Avenue
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The Last Evening 155 ViewsRate it
To Say Before Going to Sleep
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XIII
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Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy
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Archaic Torso of Apollo 145 ViewsRate it
Exposed on the cliffs of the heart
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God Speaks To Each Of Us 142 ViewsRate it
Self-Portrait
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Dedication to M.
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Parting 136 ViewsRate it
The Song Of The Blindman 136 ViewsRate it
The Song Of The Widow
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Music 132 ViewsRate it
On Hearing Of A Death
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To Lou Andreas-Salome
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Autumn Day
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Song
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Before Summer Rain
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: XXV
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Piano Practice
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Lady On A Balcony
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Adam
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Lament (Whom will you cry to, heart?)
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Black Cat
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: IV
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Greek Love-Talk
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In The Beginning
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A Sybil
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Woman in Love
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Growing Old
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The Grown-Up
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Dedication
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The Last Supper
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Venetian Morning
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Lady At A Mirror 110 ViewsRate it
Elegy X
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The Blindman's Song
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Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy
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Loneliness
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Love Song
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You Who Never Arrived
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Evening
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For Hans Carossa 97 ViewsRate it
The Apple Orchard
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Losing 91 ViewsRate it
Sunset
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Elegy I
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from The Tenth Elegy
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The Poet 74 ViewsRate it
Falconry
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: XXIII 69 ViewsRate it
Elegy IV
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Girl in Love
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: I
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Girl's Lament
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Rememberance
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Night (This night, agitated by the growing storm)
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The Voices
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Lament (O how all things are far removed)
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: VI
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Eve
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The Sonnets To Orpheus: Book 2: I
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