Rainer Maria Rilke

Here you will find thePoemEveof poet Rainer Maria Rilke

Eve

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 all of 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.