Table of Contents
Foreword Robert Hass xv
Introduction to Rilke's New Poems xxv
Volume 1
Early Apollo 5
A Girl's Lament 7
Love Song 9
Eranna co Sappho 11
Sappho to Eranna 13
Sappho to Alcaeus 15
Gravestone of a Young Girl 19
Sacrifice 21
Eastern Day Song 23
Abishag 25
David Sings before Saul 29
Joshua's Council 33
The Departure of the Prodigal Son 37
The Olive Orchard 41
Pietà 45
Song of the Women to the Poet 47
The Death of the Poet 49
Buddha 51
L'Ange du Méeridien 53
The Cathedral 55
The Portal 59
The Rose Window 63
The Capital 65
God in the Middle Ages 67
Morgue 69
The Prisoner 71
The Panther 75
The Gazelle 77
The Unicorn 79
Saint Sebastian 81
The Donor 83
The Angel 85
Roman Sarcophagi 87
The Swan 89
Childhood 91
The Poet 93
The Lace 95
A Woman's Fate 99
The Convalescent 101
The Grown-up 103
Tanagra 105
One Going Blind 107
In a Strange Park 109
Farewell 111
Death Experience 113
Blue Hydrangea 115
Before the Summer Rain 117
In the Salon 119
Last Evening 121
Portrait of My Father as a Youth 123
Self-Portrait from the Year 1906 125
The King 127
Resurrection 129
The Flag Bearer 131
The Last Count von Brederode Eludes Turkish Captivity 133
The Courtesan 135
The Stairs of the Orangery 137
The Marble Wagon 139
Buddha 141
Roman Fountain 143
The Carousel 145
Spanish Dancer 149
The Tower 151
The Plaza 155
Quai du Rosaire 157
Béguinage 159
The Procession of the Virgin Mary 163
The Island 167
Tombs of the Hetaerae 171
Orpheus, Eurydice, Hermes 175
Alcestis 183
Birth of Venus 191
The Bowl of Roses 197
Volume 2
Archaic Torso of Apollo 205
Cretan Artemis 207
Leda 209
Dolphins 211
The Isle of the Sirens 215
Lament for Antinous 217
The Death of the Beloved 219
Lament for Jonathan 221
The Consolation of Elijah 223
Saul among the Prophets 227
Samuel's Visitation of Saul 231
A Prophet 235
Jeremiah 237
A Sibyl 239
Absalom's Downfall 241
Esther 245
The Leper King 249
Legend of the Three Living and the Three Dead 351
The King of Münster 253
Danse Macabre 255
The Last Judgment 257
The Temptation 259
The Alchemist 263
The Reliquary 265
Gold 267
The Stylite 269
The Egyptian Mary 273
Crucifixion 275
The Resurrected 277
Magnificat 279
Adam 281
Eve 283
The Insane in the Garden 285
The Insane 287
Prayer for the Lunatic and the Convict 289
From the Life of a Saint 291
The Beggars 293
Foreign Family 295
Washing the Corpse 297
One of the Old Ones 299
The Blind Man 301
The Wilted One 303
The Last Supper 305
The Scene of the Fire 307
The Group 309
Snake Charming 311
Black Cat 313
Easter Eve 315
The Balcony 319
Emigrant Ship 323
Landscape 325
Roman Campagna 327
Song out of the Sea 329
Night Journey 331
Parrot Park 335
The Parks 337
Portrait 351
Venetian Morning 355
Late Autumn in Venice 357
San Marco 359
A Doge 361
The Lute 363
The Adventurer 365
Falconry 371
Corrida 373
Don Juan's Childhood 377
Don Juan's Selection 379
Saint George 381
Lady on a Balcony 383
Encounter in the Avenue of Chestnuts 385
The Sisters 387
Piano Practice 389
The Woman in Love 391
Interior of a Rose 395
Portrait of a Lady from the Eighties 397
Lady before a Mirror 401
The Old Lady 403
The Bed 405
The Stranger 407
The Approach 411
The Sundial 413
Opium Poppy 415
The Flamingos 417
Persian Heliotrope 419
Lullaby 421
The Pavilion 423
The Abduction 425
Pink Hydrangea 427
The Coat of Arms 429
The Bachelor 431
The Lone One 433
The Reader 435
The Apple Orchard 437
The Galling of Muhammad 439
The Mountain 441
The Ball 443
The Child 445
The Dog 447
The Scarab 449
Buddha in Glory 451
About the Translator 453
Index of Titles in English 455
Index of Titles in German 458
