The Works of Stefan George

Marx, Olga; Morwitz, Ernst

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Olga Marx, Ernst Morwitz

1974

Published by: The University of North Carolina Press

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This translation of all the poems in the main body of the work of George extensively revises the first publication of The Works of Stefan George which appeared in 1949. The editors have also expanded the volume, adding a number of George's early poems under the collective title Drawings in Grey, two essays (including the eulogy on Hölderin), and the lyrical drama The Lady's Praying along with a commentary by the translators.

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| "When flung on heavy mats in holy rest"

pp. 136-137

| "When flung on heavy mats in holy rest"

pp. 136-137

| "Half Title"

pp. 2-3

| "Title"

p. 4

| "Copyright"

p. 5

| "Dedication"

pp. 6-9

| "Contents"

pp. 10-29

| "ODES, PILGRIMAGES, ALGABAL"

pp. 30-31

| "Preface to the second edition of Odes, Pilgrimages, and Algabal"

pp. 32-33

| "ODES (1890)"

pp. 34-35

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 36-37

| "INSCRIPTION"

p. 38

| "INITIATION"

pp. 38-39

| "IN THE PARK"

p. 39

| "INVITATION"

p. 40

| "AFTERNOON"

p. 41

| "AN ENCOUNTER"

p. 42

- "LOVE FEASTS IN NEW TERRAINS"

pp. 42-43

| "I The coals are glowing. Let the incense ooze"

pp. 42-43

| "II The sky-blue satin of the tent is traced"

p. 43

| "TRANSFORMATION"

p. 44

| "PARTING"

pp. 44-45

| "SERENADE"

p. 45

| "SHORE"

p. 46

| "LATE SUMMER"

p. 47

| "IN RETROSPECT"

pp. 47-48

| "ON THE TERRACE"

p. 48

| "ADDRESS"

pp. 48-49

+ "PICTURES"

pp. 48-49

| "THE INFANTE"

p. 49

| "FRA ANGELICO"

pp. 49-50

| "THE GARDENS CLOSE"

pp. 50-51

| "PILGRIMAGES (1891)"

pp. 52-53

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 54-55

| "INSCRIPTION"

p. 56

| "THE RECLUSE GOES FORTH"

p. 57

| "Stop your turning vanes, O mill"

pp. 57-58

| "While you listen to whispering flames"

p. 58

| "Why do you squander"

pp. 58-59

| "All youth (or"

p. 59

| "To ancient lands the vaulted passage calls"

p. 60

+ "VISIONS"

pp. 60-61

| "I When from the gondola she mounts the stair"

pp. 60-61

| "II Too long I lean against the gate and gaze"

p. 61

| "WARNING"

p. 62

| "The squares are forsaken and silent the song and the lute"

pp. 62-63

| "Sovereign dream I trusted at heart"

p. 63

| "Silence despair!"

p. 64

| "Doff your mourning mien and vesture"

pp. 64-65

| "My early visions! With the dead you vanished"

p. 65

| "BLESSING FOR NEW QUESTS"

pp. 65-66

| "Would that on mountain trails alone"

p. 66

| "The gravel slowly dries in morning rays"

pp. 66-67

- "JOURNEYS OF LONG AGO"

pp. 66-67

| "I Through the wood, across the valley"

p. 67

| "II The island-garden sleeps. No step, no sound"

pp. 67-68

| "III Across a plain of snow we sped"

p. 68

| "What balms on brittle bark"

pp. 68-69

| "THE CLASP"

p. 69

| "ALGABAL (1892)"

pp. 70-71

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 72-73

| "INSCRIPTION"

p. 74

- "THE REALM BELOW"

pp. 74-75

| "O halls that boast of such fabulous treasure"

pp. 74-75

| "The hall of yellow glitter and of sun"

p. 75

| "The room of pale resplendence lay beside"

p. 76

| "My garden requires no air and no sun"

pp. 76-77

- "DAYS"

pp. 76-77

| "When ramparts tipped with copper seem to swim"

p. 77

| "Toward the east the walls are massed"

p. 78

| "0 mother of my mother, long revered"

pp. 78-79

| "Cups on the ground"

p. 79

| "When envious sleep turns to leave me"

p. 80

| "These words were said when living was a loss"

pp. 80-81

| "I must saddle ashen horses"

p. 81

| "Agathon, close to my pillow bowed"

pp. 81-82

| "Somnolent peace, yet I cannot dispel"

pp. 81-82

| "Music sifted"

p. 82

- "MEMORIES"

pp. 82-83

| "Days of grandeur when in fancy worlds awaited my command"

pp. 82-83

| "I have lost the days of bloom"

p. 83

| "Wipe away the stinging traces"

p. 84

| "Against the square I saw her first, among"

pp. 84-85

| "And now I shall evoke those hours: Under"

p. 85

| "I can still relive my first distress"

pp. 85-86

| "Have victims gulled me, or an eagle's glide"

pp. 85-86

| "AUGURY"

pp. 86-87

| "THE BOOKS OF ECLOGUES AND EULOGIES, OF LE-GENDS AND LAYS AND OF THE HANGING GARDENS (1894)"

pp. 88-89

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 90-91

| "PREFACE"

pp. 92-93

- "THE BOOK OF ECLOGUES AND EULOGIES"

p. 94

| "ANNIVERSARY"

pp. 94-95

| "DAY OF RECOGNITION"

pp. 94-95

| "DAY OF DESTINY"

p. 95

| "SHEPHERD'S DAY"

pp. 95-96

| "THE FIELDGOD'S SORROW"

p. 96

| "DIALOGUE IN THE REEDS"

p. 97

| "THE LORD OF THE ISLAND"

p. 98

| "EXODUS OF THE FIRSTBORN"

pp. 98-99

| "SECRET SACRIFICE"

p. 99

+ "THE FAVOURITES OF THE PEOPLE"

pp. 99-100

| "The Wrestler"

p. 100

| "The Lyre player"

pp. 100-101

| "ERINNA"

pp. 100-101

| "AFTER THE FESTIVAL"

p. 101

| "THE END OF THE VICTOR"

pp. 102-103

- "EULOGIES ON SOME YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR TIME"

p. 104

| "To DAMON"

pp. 104-105

| "To MENIPPA"

p. 105

| "To MENIPPA"

pp. 105-106

| "To CALLIMACHUS"

p. 106

| "To SIDONIA"

pp. 106-107

| "To PHAON"

p. 107

| "To LUZILLA"

pp. 107-108

| "TO ISOCRATES"

p. 108

| "TO KOTYTTO"

pp. 108-109

| "To ANTINOUS"

p. 109

| "To APOLLONIA"

pp. 110-111

- "THE BOOK OF LEGENDS AND LAYS"

p. 112

| "VIGIL OF ARMS"

p. 113

| "THE DEED"

p. 114

| "FRAUENLOB"

p. 115

| "AUBADE"

p. 116

| "IN THE UNHAPPY MANNER OF"

p. 117

| "KNIGHTS-ERRANT"

p. 118

- "THE COMRADE IN ARMS"

pp. 118-119

| "I It was where deer frequent the pool"

p. 119

| "II Yet he was trapped by crafty foes, with few"

pp. 119-120

| "A KNIGHT GROWING FORGETFUL"

p. 120

| "THE RECLUSE"

pp. 120-121

| "THE IMAGE"

p. 121

- "STRAINS OF A WANDERING GLEEMAN"

pp. 121-122

| "Words elude and words deceive"

pp. 121-122

| "From the buds the dewdrops run"

p. 122

| "Shall I offer sheaves of bloom"

pp. 122-123

| "Is it much to plead"

pp. 122-123

| "When I mourn, I think"

p. 123

| "See, my child, I leave"

pp. 123-124

| "What a morning, what a day"

pp. 123-124

| "Have you never felt before"

p. 124

| "A lord's child leaned from the sill"

pp. 124-125

- "DITTIES OF A DWARF"

pp. 124-125

| "I The smallest birds are singing"

p. 125

| "II I leave my kingly post"

pp. 125-126

| "III You will be rich and royal"

pp. 125-126

| "AWAKENING OF THE BRIDE"

p. 126

| "Lily of the field"

p. 127

- "THE BOOK OF THE HANGING GARDENS"

pp. 128-129

| "Now we shall fly into the land again"

pp. 129-130

| "When through the greyness a clear"

pp. 129-130

| "The roads your strength has carven out, reveal"

p. 130

| "The palaces reared of crystallic and nigricant stone"

pp. 130-131

| "When first the noble city owned defeat"

pp. 130-131

| "A CHILD'S KINGDOM"

p. 131

| "Bridle your phantasies, golden"

p. 132

| "My macaws are white and crowned with"

pp. 132-133

| "PREPARATIONS"

p. 133

| "EVENING OF PEACE"

pp. 133-134

| "Sheltered by the lavish foliage, where"

p. 134

| "In this Eden, halls and gayly"

pp. 134-135

| "A novice I was drawn into your sway"

pp. 134-135

| "Now that my lips are motionless and burn"

pp. 134-135

| "Tell me on what path today"

p. 135

| "Now there is no deed I do not spurn"

pp. 135-136

| "I am throttled by my hopes and fears"

pp. 135-136

| "If I do not touch your body now"

pp. 135-136

| "Our delights are stern and spare"

p. 136

| "Beside the lovely flower-bed I lean"

pp. 136-137

| "When behind the flowered gate our own"

pp. 136-137

| "Against a silver willow on the shore"

p. 137

| "Against a silver willow on the shore"

p. 137

| "Hush your tale"

pp. 137-138

| "Hush your tale"

pp. 137-138

| "Blithe in arbours dim with dusk we moved"

pp. 137-138

| "Blithe in arbours dim with dusk we moved"

pp. 137-138

| "The shallow appetite for fame is reined"

p. 138

| "The shallow appetite for fame is reined"

p. 138

| "While in my dreams I rode to victories"

pp. 138-139

| "While in my dreams I rode to victories"

pp. 138-139

| "I flung my circlet which no longer shone"

pp. 139-140

| "I flung my circlet which no longer shone"

pp. 139-140

| "Where before the final lap"

pp. 140-141

| "Where before the final lap"

pp. 140-141

| "He lay alone upon a ledge of stone"

pp. 140-141

| "He lay alone upon a ledge of stone"

pp. 140-141

| "VOICES IN THE RIVER"

pp. 141-143

| "VOICES IN THE RIVER"

pp. 141-143

| "THE YEAR OF THE SOUL (1897)"

pp. 144-145

| "THE YEAR OF THE SOUL (1897)"

pp. 144-145

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 146-147

| "DEDICATION"

pp. 146-147

| "PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION"

pp. 148-149

| "PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION"

pp. 148-149

- "AFTER THE HARVEST"

pp. 150-151

- "AFTER THE HARVEST"

pp. 150-151

| "Come to the park they say is dead, and you"

pp. 151-152

| "Come to the park they say is dead, and you"

pp. 151-152

| "0 urges from the years of youth which sweep"

pp. 151-152

| "0 urges from the years of youth which sweep"

pp. 151-152

| "Oh, hail and thanks to you who eased my stress"

p. 152

| "Oh, hail and thanks to you who eased my stress"

p. 152

| "Up to the gate and back again we wander"

pp. 152-153

| "Up to the gate and back again we wander"

pp. 152-153

| "Around the pond where runnels bring"

p. 153

| "Around the pond where runnels bring"

p. 153

| "Beside the long and even hedge we lean"

pp. 153-154

| "Beside the long and even hedge we lean"

pp. 153-154

| "Above the spring, niched in the wall, you bent"

pp. 153-154

| "Above the spring, niched in the wall, you bent"

pp. 153-154

| "Now do not lag in reaching for the boon"

p. 154

| "Now do not lag in reaching for the boon"

p. 154

| "Today let us avoid the garden, for"

pp. 154-155

| "Today let us avoid the garden, for"

pp. 154-155

| "I wrote it down: No more can I conceal"

pp. 154-155

| "I wrote it down: No more can I conceal"

pp. 154-155

| "Here in the spacious square of yellow stone"

p. 155

| "Here in the spacious square of yellow stone"

p. 155

- "JOURNEY TROUGH SNOW"

pp. 155-156

- "JOURNEY TROUGH SNOW"

pp. 155-156

| "The stones, which jutted in my road, have all"

pp. 155-156

| "The stones, which jutted in my road, have all"

pp. 155-156

| "I feel as if a glance had slit the dark"

p. 156

| "I feel as if a glance had slit the dark"

p. 156

| "We took the usual path with joy and fear"

pp. 156-157

| "We took the usual path with joy and fear"

pp. 156-157

| "I may not kneel and thank you who were lent"

pp. 156-157

| "I may not kneel and thank you who were lent"

pp. 156-157

| "That evening, when the candles had been lit"

p. 157

| "That evening, when the candles had been lit"

p. 157

| "I taught you to discern the winning peace"

p. 158

| "I taught you to discern the winning peace"

p. 158

| "Your beauty while you mourn, my loyalty"

pp. 158-159

| "Your beauty while you mourn, my loyalty"

pp. 158-159

| "The flower in its pot of sallow clay"

pp. 158-159

| "The flower in its pot of sallow clay"

pp. 158-159

| "Your magic broke when veils of azure blew"

p. 159

| "Your magic broke when veils of azure blew"

p. 159

| "Where the sunrays swiftly slash"

pp. 159-160

| "Where the sunrays swiftly slash"

pp. 159-160

- "TRIUMPH OF SUMMER"

pp. 159-160

- "TRIUMPH OF SUMMER"

pp. 159-160

| "The air, astir as though with coming things"

p. 160

| "The air, astir as though with coming things"

p. 160

| "Ignore the poppies red as blood, the blue"

pp. 160-161

| "Ignore the poppies red as blood, the blue"

pp. 160-161

| "You want to found a realm of sun with me"

p. 161

| "You want to found a realm of sun with me"

p. 161

| "A golden mullein nodding in the grass"

pp. 161-162

| "A golden mullein nodding in the grass"

pp. 161-162

| "Have you his lovely image still in mind"

pp. 161-162

| "Have you his lovely image still in mind"

pp. 161-162

| "When we are haunted by a past dismay"

p. 162

| "When we are haunted by a past dismay"

p. 162

| "It seemed as if another sky unfurled"

pp. 162-163

| "It seemed as if another sky unfurled"

pp. 162-163

| "Learn how to lavish even priceless gains"

pp. 162-163

| "Learn how to lavish even priceless gains"

pp. 162-163

| "When cool and early morning blows the wet"

p. 163

| "When cool and early morning blows the wet"

p. 163

| "These trees be praised, this earth of many hues"

pp. 163-164

| "These trees be praised, this earth of many hues"

pp. 163-164

- "SUPERSCRIPTIONS AND DEDICATIONS"

pp. 163-164

- "SUPERSCRIPTIONS AND DEDICATIONS"

pp. 163-164

| "Friends, I cannot yet beget"

p. 164

| "Friends, I cannot yet beget"

p. 164

| "I locked myself in dreams and shunned the crowd"

pp. 164-165

| "I locked myself in dreams and shunned the crowd"

pp. 164-165

| "The word of seers is not for common sharing"

p. 165

| "The word of seers is not for common sharing"

p. 165

| "When from gilded bars like a bird I flew"

pp. 165-166

| "When from gilded bars like a bird I flew"

pp. 165-166

- "VERSES FOR THE GUESTS IN T"

pp. 165-166

- "VERSES FOR THE GUESTS IN T"

pp. 165-166

| "I A sinister fairy shall sing"

p. 166

| "I A sinister fairy shall sing"

p. 166

| "II You learned that only the house of want knows dejection"

pp. 166-167

| "II You learned that only the house of want knows dejection"

pp. 166-167

| "Though in the castle's dark and clanging hall"

p. 167

| "Though in the castle's dark and clanging hall"

p. 167

| "The traveller pauses midway on his road"

pp. 167-168

| "The traveller pauses midway on his road"

pp. 167-168

- "RECOLLECTIONS OF EVENINGS OF INNER COMPANIONSHIP"

pp. 167-168

- "RECOLLECTIONS OF EVENINGS OF INNER COMPANIONSHIP"

pp. 167-168

| "FLOWERS"

p. 168

| "FLOWERS"

p. 168

| "RETURN"

pp. 168-169

| "RETURN"

pp. 168-169

| "ABDUCTION"

p. 169

| "ABDUCTION"

p. 169

| "RIPENING"

pp. 169-170

| "RIPENING"

pp. 169-170

| "WHITE SONG"

p. 170

| "WHITE SONG"

p. 170

| "VIGILS"

pp. 170-171

| "VIGILS"

pp. 170-171

| "I Your forehead clouded by the two tufts"

pp. 170-171

| "I Your forehead clouded by the two tufts"

pp. 170-171

| "II I did not heed you and I went my road"

p. 171

| "II I did not heed you and I went my road"

p. 171

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DOI	10.1353/book.75740
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