List of poems from the book of pictures
This is a list of the poems contained in the Book of Pictures . This is a volume of poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke , which was published for the first time in 1902 and expanded in 1906.
First part of the first book
title | First line | comment | Emergence |
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entrance | Whoever you are: step out in the evening | Berlin-Schmargendorf, February 24, 1900 | |
From an April | The forest smells again | Berlin-Schmargendorf, April 6, 1900 | |
Two poems for Hans Thomas' sixtieth birthday (moon night) | South German night, very wide in the ripe moon | Berlin-Schmargendorf, shortly before July 14, 1899 | |
Two poems for Hans Thomas' sixtieth birthday (Ritter) | The knight rides in black steel | Berlin-Schmargendorf, shortly before July 14, 1899 | |
Girl melancholy | I think of a young knight | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 18, 1899 | |
From the girls (I.) | Others have to go a long way | Worpswede, September 29, 1900 | |
Of the girls (II.) | Girls who are poets learning from you | Worpswede, September 9 or 10, 1900 | |
The song of the statue | Who is it who loves me so much that he? | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 18, 1899 | |
The madness | She must always muse: I am ... I am ... | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 24, 1899 | |
The lover | Yes i long for you I'm sliding | undated, between 1902 and 1906 | |
The bride | Call me beloved, call me loud! | Berlin-Schmargendorf, September 20, 1898 | |
The silence | Do you hear, beloved, I raise my hands | undated, around 1900/01 | |
music | What are you playing, boy? We went through the gardens | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 24, 1899 | |
The angel | They all have tired mouths | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 22, 1899 | |
The Guardian angel | You are the bird whose wings came | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 24, 1899 | |
Martyrs | She is a martyr. And as a hard case | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 22, 1899 | |
The Holy | The people were thirsty; so one thing went | Paris, November 1, 1902 | |
childhood | Fear and time run down the school for a long time | Meudon-Val Fleury, winter 1905/1906 | |
From a childhood | The darkness was like wealth in the room | Berlin-Schmargendorf, March 21, 1900 | |
The boy | I want to be like them | undated, probably Paris, winter 1902/1903 | |
The confirmands | The confirmands go in white veils | Paris, May 1903 | Paris, May 1903 |
The Lord's Supper | They are gathered, amazed, disturbed people | Paris, June 19, 1903 |
The second part of the first book
title | First line | comment | Emergence |
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initial | Rise from infinite longings | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 20, 1899 | |
To say to sleep | I want to sing someone in | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 14, 1900 | |
People at night | The nights are not made for the crowd | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 25, 1899 | |
The neighbor | Stranger violin, are you following me? | undated, probably Paris, 1902/03 | |
Pont du Carrousel | The blind man who stands on the bridge | undated, probably Paris, 1902/03 | |
The lonely | Like one who sailed on strange seas | Viareggio, April 2, 1903 | |
The Ashanti | No vision of foreign countries | Jardin d'Acclimatation | undated, probably Paris 1902/03 |
The last | I don't have a father's house | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 15, 1900 | |
Anxiety | There is a bird call in the withered forest | Berlin-Schmargendorf, shortly before October 21, 1900 | |
legal action | O how is everything far away | Berlin-Schmargendorf, October 21, 1900 | |
lonliness | Solitude is like rain | Paris, September 21, 1902 | |
Autumn day | Lord: it's time. the summer was very big | Paris, September 21, 1902 | |
memory | And you wait, expect one thing | undated, between 1902 and 1906 | |
End of autumn | I've been seeing for a while | undated, between 1902 and 1906 | |
autumn | The leaves are falling, falling from afar | Paris, September 11, 1902 | |
On the edge of the night | My room and this vastness | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 12, 1900 | |
prayer | Night, silent night in which are woven | Berlin-Schmargendorf, December 13, 1900 | |
progress | And again my deep life rustles louder | Worpswede, September 27, 1900 | |
Anticipation | I am surrounded by afar like a flag | undated, between 1902 and 1906 | |
Storm | When the clouds hit by storms | undated, probably Sweden, autumn 1904 | |
Evening in Skåne | The park is high. And like from a house | Jonsered near Gothenburg, Sweden, around November 1, 1904 | |
Eve | The evening slowly changes clothes | undated, between 1902 and 1906 | |
Serious hour | Anyone crying somewhere in the world now | Berlin-Schmargendorf, mid-October 1900 | |
Stanzas | Is someone who takes everything in hand | undated, between 1900 and 1902 |
The first part of the second book
title | First line | comment | Emergence |
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initial | Always surrender your beauty | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 14, 1899 | |
Annunciation | You are no closer to God than we are | The angel's words | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 21, 1899 |
The three kings | Once when on the edge of the desert | Legend | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 23, 1899 |
In the Certosa | Everyone from the white brotherhood | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 28, 1899 | |
The Last Judgement | They are all like a bath | From the leaves of a monk | Berlin-Schmargendorf, July 21, 1899 |
Charles the Twelfth of Sweden rides in Ukraine | Kings in legends | Berlin-Schmargendorf, October 21, 1900 | |
Was a young king from the north | as well | Worpswede, October 2, 1900 | |
The son | My father was an exiled one | Worpswede, October 1, 1900 | |
... So we became dreamy violinists | as well | Berlin-Schmargendorf, April 12, 1900 | |
The Tsars (I.) | That was in days when the mountains came | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Meiningen, late August / early September 1899 |
The Tsars (II.) | Large birds are still threatening everywhere | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Paris, early February 1906 |
The Tsars (III.) | His servants feed more and more | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Paris, early February 1906 |
The Tsars (IV.) | It is the hour when the kingdom becomes vain | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Meiningen, late August / early September 1899 |
The Tsars (V.) | The pale tsar will not die on the sword | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Paris, early February 1906 |
The Tsars (VI.) | Still looking in the silver plates | A circle of poems (1899 and 1906) | Paris, early February 1906 |
The singer sings in front of a princely child | You pale child, should every evening | In memory of Paula Becker-Modersohn | Worpswede, October 3, 1900 |
The one from Colonna | You strange men who are so quiet now | undated, probably Rome, winter 1903/1904 |
Part two of the second book
title | First line | comment | Emergence |
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Fragments from lost days | ... Like birds that get used to walking | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 7, 1900 | |
The Voices (title page) | The rich and lucky have good silence | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Beggar's Song) | I always go from gate to gate | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Blind Man's Song) | I'm blind, you outside, that's a curse | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, June 7th, 1906 |
The Voices (The Drinker's Song) | It wasn't in me. It went in and out | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Song of the Suicide) | So just a moment | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Widow's Song) | In the beginning life was good for me | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Idiot's Song) | You don't stop me. You let me go | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, June 7th, 1906 |
The Voices (The Orphan's Song) | I am nobody and I will not be either | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, 7./12. June 1906 |
The Voices (The Dwarf's Song) | Maybe my soul is straight and good | Nine sheets with a title page | Paris, June 7th, 1906 |
The Voices (The Leper’s Song) | See I'm one who has left everything | Nine sheets with a title page | undated, before June 1906 |
From the fountains | Suddenly I know a lot about the fountains | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 14, 1900 | |
The reader | I've read for a long time. Since that afternoon | Westerwede, September 1901 | |
The looking one | I look at the trees in the storms | Berlin-Schmargendorf, mid-January 1901 | |
From a stormy night (title page) | The night moved by the growing storm | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
From a storm night (I.) | On such nights you can walk in the alleys | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
From a storm night (II.) | On such nights the prisons open | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
From a storm night (III.) | On such nights there is suddenly fire | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, late January 1901 |
From a storm night (IV.) | On such nights as many days ago | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, late January 1901 |
From a storm night (V.) | In such nights the incurable know | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, late January 1901 |
From a storm night (VI.) | On such nights all cities are the same | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
From a storm night (VII.) | On such nights the dying become clear | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
From a storm night (VIII.) | My sister grows on nights like this | Eight sheets with a title page | Berlin-Schmargendorf, January 21, 1901 |
The blind | The stranger: Are you not afraid to speak of it? | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 25, 1900 | |
requiem | It's been one more thing for an hour | Dedicated to Clara Westhoff | Berlin-Schmargendorf, November 20, 1900 |
Final piece | Death is great | undated, 1900/1901 |
literature
- Complete works , 7 volumes, ed. from the Rilke archive in connection with Ruth Sieber-Rilke, obtained by Ernst Zinn . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1955–1966 (Vol. 1–6), 1997 (Vol. 7)