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Cretan Artemis

from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

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Wind of the hills, admit it — that her brow

was like some shining thing. Say this was so.

Sleek headwind of the nimble prey, tell how

you shaped the chiton's cloth to flow

and drape itself on her indifferent breast,

the fickle hint of some presentiment,

while she drove on like one all-knowing. Dressed

for breezes, cool and kilted, off she went,

storming her way with nymph and hunting hound

and testing, constantly, the bow she'd bound

into her broad, stiff, leather hanger.

But sometimes, from some far-off settlement,

the screams of birth by which the air was rent

would rage. She'd come, coerced by anger.

Leda

Als ihn der Gott in seiner Not betrat,

erschrak er fast, den Schwan so schön zu finden;

er ließ sich ganz verwirrt in ihm verschwinden.

Schon aber trug ihn sein Betrug zur Tat,

bevor er noch des unerprobten Seins

Gefühle prüfte. Und die Aufgetane

erkannte schon den Kommenden im Schwane

und wußte schon er bat um Eins,

das sie, verwirrt in ihrem Widerstand,

nicht mehr verbergen konnte. Er kam nieder

und halsend durch die immer schwächre Hand

ließ sich der Gott in die Geliebte los.

Dann erst empfand er glücklich sein Gefieder

und wurde wirklich Schwan in ihrem Schoß.

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New Poems , pp. 175 - 176
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2015

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