from Part II - Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil / The New Poems: The Other Part
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2016
Was it the curves the carriage took that thrilled
us, or the sight of angels’ forms, baroque
with all the memories their presence woke
while hovering in a meadow bluebells filled?
The view was brief, then gone again. Estate
grounds ran along the drive, to parallel
and graze its length, till suddenly they fell
away. For here was the commanding gate,
which now — a force the mansion must obey —
compelled its long façade to swing in view.
We stopped. A flash slipped down the door's glass squares.
A slender greyhound rose, just able to
avoid its opening. It sought the stairs,
then down their shallow steps it made its way.
Die Sonnenuhr
Selten reicht ein Schauer feuchter Fäule
aus dem Gartenschatten, wo einander
Tropfen fallen hören und ein Wander-
vogel lautet, zu der Säule,
die in Majoran und Koriander
steht und Sommerstunden zeigt;
nur sobald die Dame (der ein Diener
nachfolgt) in dem hellen Florentiner
über ihren Rand sich neigt,
wird sie schattig und verschweigt —.
Oder wenn ein sommerlicher Regen
aufkommt aus dem wogenden Bewegen
hoher Kronen, hat sie eine Pause;
denn sie weiß die Zeit nicht auszudrücken,
die dann in den Frucht- und Blumenstücken
plötzlich glüht im weißen Gartenhause.
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