Selected Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Hölderlin

Author:Friedrich Hölderlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Literary Collections, German, European, Essays, General
ISBN: 9780141962184
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-06-20T16:00:00+00:00

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Celebrate – yes, but what? And gladly with others I’d sing now,

Yet alone as I am nothing that’s godlike rings true,

This, I know, is it, my failing, a curse maims my sinews

Only because of this, making me flag from the start,

So that numb all day long I sit like a child that is moping

Dumb, though at times a tear coldly creeps out of my eyes,

And the flowers of the field, the singing of birds make me sad now,

Being heralds of heaven, bearers of heavenly joy,

But to me, in my heart’s dank vault, now the soul giving sun dawns

Cool, infertile, in vain, feeble as rays of the night,

Oh, and futile and empty, walls of a prison, the heavens

Press, a smothering load heaped on my head from above!

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