«“My darling, my darling, where have you / Been at night, in such a snowstorm?” / — “To grief, even at night the road is / Bright; I went to the Old One at the mill.” “My darling, my darling, I don’t understand / A speech with false words... / With what did you go to him at n...»
«Whether blazing heat hangs there / Or foaming waves dissolve, we / Are two sails of the one boat, / And filled with the one breath. A tempest has merged our desires, / We are wound round with insane / Dreams, but fate has silently / Drawn a line between us for ever. And on a night of t...»
«To S. V. von Stein There is a love like smoke: if cramped, / It stupefies; give it freedom, and / It will be gone... To be like / Smoke, but eternally youthful... There is a love like shadow: by day it / Lies at your feet, it heeds you; at / Night it embraces you soundlessly... / To be...»
«I fell in love with your insane impulse, but / It is impossible to be you and I all at once, / And having revealed the hieroglyphics of prophetic / Dreams, I write the patterned phrase legibly. Fear is reflected ornamentally there, and / How anguish has crumpled the heart’s paper! / But...»