Eve

Rainer Maria RilkeRainer Maria Rilke

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Simply she stands at the cathedral’s
great ascent, close to the rose window,
with the apple in the apple-pose,
guiltless-guilty once and for allof the growing she gave birth to
since form the circle of eternities
loving she went forth, top struggle through
her way throughout the earth like a young year.Ah, gladly yet a little in that land
Would she have lingered, heeding the harmony
And understanding of the animals.But since she found the man determined,
She went with him, aspiring after death,
And she had as yet hardly known God.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke

1875 - 1926/Male/CzechA poet and novelist, René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke was known for his verse and highly lyrical prose.

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