Nature
Evening
Translated by Jessie Lemont (1918) · From First Poems
Nature
The bleak fields are asleep,
My heart alone wakes;
The evening in the harbour
Down his red sails takes.
Night, guardian of dreams,
Now wanders through the land;
The moon, a lily white,
Blossoms within her hand.
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MLA
Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Evening.” Translated by Jessie Lemont. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rilke/0/.
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Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Evening.” Translated by Jessie Lemont. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rilke/0/.
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