Books & Authors

Time traveler's wife.

In the book there are... Poems and extracts. There's an extract at the start of one of the parts and is about A girl, last line being.

"Would be beyond walking, and would fly."

Can Someone recite that please?

Also the poem which Henry tells when Clare is giving birth?

Andric Polux Sun 25/05/08 20:55

<< Previous

Next >>

Subscribe to question

Post an Answer

cancross
Sun 25/05/08
21:51

The first poem is "Going Blind" by Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. by Stephen Mitchell.

Going Blind

She sat just like the others at the table.
But on second glance, she seemed to hold her cup
a little differently as she picked it up.
She smiled once. It was almost painful.

And when they finished and it was time to stand
and slowly, as chance selected them, they left
and moved through many rooms (they talked and laughed),
I saw her. She was moving far behind

the others, absorbed, like someone who will soon
have to sing before a large assembly;
upon her eyes, which were radiant with joy,
light played as on the surface of a pool.

She followed slowly, taking a long time,
as though there were some obstacle in the way;
and yet: as though, once it was overcome,
she would be beyond all walking, and would fly.

I don't own the book you reference, so can't help with the second poem.

Andric Polux
Sun 25/05/08
21:54

Question Author

thank you

Naomicorlett
Sun 25/05/08
22:03

Rainer Maria Rilke 5th elegy in the Duino Elegies.

http://www.tonykline.co.uk/PITBR/German/Rilke. htm

Post an Answer

Submit the above question and answers

add to del.icio.us	add to digg	add to furl
add to reddit	add to Technorati	add to Blinklist
add to StumbleUpon	add to squidoo	add to ma.gnolia
add to Cocomment	add to Netscape	add to Fark