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The Gazelle

from Part I - Neue Gedichte / New Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Gazella dorcas

Two choice words, charmed one: spellbound, tell us how

their chime could ever reach a rhyme and catch

that sound, which comes and goes through you — that badge

you wear. Both leaf and lyre rise from your brow,

and even now, the troped comparison

composing you in songs of love runs on,

the words as light on eyelids as a rose's

petals to one who shuts his book, then closes

his eyes to see you in his transport, stopped

as if your every limb were primed to spring,

but will not fire while your neck lifts up

your head. Still by a pool, and listening,

you're like some bather in the woods who breaks

off, turning that mirror her countenance makes.

Das Einhorn

Der Heilige hob das Haupt, und das Gebet

fiel wie ein Helm zurück von seinem Haupte:

denn lautlos nahte sich das niegeglaubte,

das weiße Tier, das wie eine geraubte

hülflose Hindin mit den Augen fleht.

Der Beine elfenbeinernes Gestell

bewegte sich in leichten Gleichgewichten,

ein weißer Glanz glitt selig durch das Fell,

und auf der Tierstirn, auf der stillen, lichten,

stand, wie ein Turm im Mond, das Horn so hell,

und jeder Schritt geschah, es aufzurichten.

Das Maul mit seinem rosagrauen Flaum

war leicht gerafft, so daß ein wenig Weiß

(weißer als alles) von den Zahnen glänzte;

die Nüstern nahmen auf und lechzten leis.

Doch seine Blicke, die kein Ding begrenzte,

warfen sich Bilder in den Raum

und schlossen einen blauen Sagenkreis.

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New Poems , pp. 61 - 62
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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