1887 - 1914/AustrianGeorg Trakl (February 3, 1887 - November 3, 1914) was an Austrian poet, whose deeply disturbing work assaults the emotions with its powerful metaphors of destruction, death, the search for meaning, and a tenuous relationship with God. Trak…
View profile & all 13 Poems / StoriesWhen snow falls against the window,Long sounds the evening bell...
The black snow runs down from the rooftops;A red finger dips into your brow;
Sleep and death, the dusky eaglesAround this head swoop all night long;
At evening the autumn woodlands ringWith deadly weapons. Over the golden plains
It is a light, that the wind has extinguished.It is a pub on the heath, that a drunk departs in the afternoon.
