In the Inmost Hour of the Soul

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
You, rushing past on your streets....Pages 1-1
The war, the war....Pages 2-2
The leaves have fallen upon your gravestone....Pages 3-3
The fatal volume....Pages 4-4
Two suns are cooling....Pages 5-5
After a sleepless night....Pages 6-6
Sweetly—sweetly....Pages 7-7
Black as an iris....Pages 8-8
To kiss one’s brow....Pages 9-9
I came in....Pages 10-10
The New Year’s Eve....Pages 11-11
I am not an impostor....Pages 12-12
Here, darling, take these rags....Pages 13-13
Words are inscribed in the black sky....Pages 14-14
I am. You shall be....Pages 15-15
I will tell you about the great hoax....Pages 16-16
Spurned by my lover....Pages 17-17
Dying, I will not say....Pages 18-18
I am paper to your pen....Pages 19-19
Your soul is close to mine....Pages 20-20
Poems grow like stars....Pages 21-21
Bring to me all that’s of no use to others....Pages 22-22
The sun is one, but marches through all lands....Pages 23-23
Two trees....Pages 24-24
God, I live!....Pages 25-25
I am happy to live impeccably and simply....Pages 26-26
My way does not lie by your house....Pages 27-27
To you, who bid farewell to love....Pages 28-28
There is a whole tribe of them pining after me....Pages 29-29
Nailed to the Pillory... I....Pages 30-30
Nailed to the Pillory... II....Pages 31-31
You wanted this....Pages 32-32
Neither stanzas nor stars will save me....Pages 33-33
Earthly Name....Pages 34-34
Roland’s Horn....Pages 35-35
Soul unacquainted with limits....Pages 36-36
Shaggy star....Pages 37-37
How they flare up....Pages 38-38
Slowly, with a careful thin hand....Pages 39-39
I know that mortal loveliness....Pages 40-40
In the garden....Pages 41-41
Pride and Timidity....Pages 42-42
Praise to Aphrodite I....Pages 43-43
Praise to Aphrodite II....Pages 44-44
Praise to Aphrodite III....Pages 45-45
Praise to Aphrodite IV....Pages 46-46
From the mind’s dreams....Pages 47-47
With such force has her hand grasped....Pages 48-48
The Muse....Pages 49-49
Orpheus....Pages 50-50
At dawn....Pages 51-51
There’s an hour for those words....Pages 52-52
So, in the destitute daily toil....Pages 53-53
Find yourself trusting women....Pages 54-54
Remember the law....Pages 55-55
When, Lord....Pages 56-56
You will have your proof....Pages 57-57
The Sibyl....Pages 58-58
Sibyl-to the Newborn....Pages 59-60
But even the joy of mornings....Pages 61-62
From Trees VI....Pages 63-64
VII....Pages 65-65
VIII....Pages 66-66
IX....Pages 67-68
These are ashes of treasures....Pages 69-69
The gold of my hair....Pages 70-70
God I....Pages 71-71
God III....Pages 72-72
Do not call out to her....Pages 73-73
Ophelia-In Defense of the Queen....Pages 74-74
It’s no black magic....Pages 75-75
The hour when the kings on high....Pages 76-76
The hour when my dear brother....Pages 77-77
As patiently as stones are chiseled....Pages 78-78
With the others....Pages 79-79
Window....Pages 80-80
Sister....Pages 81-81
The hour of bared riverheads....Pages 82-82
To Steal By.......Pages 83-83
The Dialog of Hamlet with His Conscience....Pages 84-84
The Crevasse....Pages 85-85
The Curtain....Pages 86-87
Sahara....Pages 88-89
From The Hour of the Soul.......Pages 90-90
In the inmost hour of the soul....Pages 91-91
Beyond Sight....Pages 92-92
Minute....Pages 93-93
From this mountain....Pages 94-94
The Ravine....Pages 95-95
I love you, but the torment is still alive....Pages 96-96
You who loved me with the falsehood....Pages 97-97
There are rhymes in this world....Pages 98-98
It is not fated....Pages 99-99
The Island....Pages 100-100
Under the Shawl....Pages 101-101
Thus—only Helen looks past the Trojan....Pages 102-102
The Baptism....Pages 103-104
Squeezed with the hollows....Pages 105-105
A soldier—into a trench....Pages 106-107
My veins slashed open....Pages 108-108