Verses translated by Julia Kalman
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You,
You, slender and pure as a flame,
You, like the morning, gentle and bright,
You blossoming branch from noble stem,
You, like a spring, secret and plain.
You accompany me on sunlit meadows,
Envelop me in evening’s haze,
Illuminate my path in shadow,
You cool breeze, you warm breath.
You are my wish and my thought,
I breathe you with every breath,
I sip you with every drink,
I kiss you with every scent.
You, blossoming branch from noble stem,
You, like a spring, secret and plain,
You, slender and pure as a flame,
You, like the morning, gentle and bright.
Stefan Anton George (12 July 1868–4 December 1933) was a German symbolist poet and a translator of Dante Alighieri, William Shakespeare, Hesiod, and Charles Baudelaire.
I am the night
I am the night. My veils are
much softer than the white death.
I take every hot ache
into my cool, black boat.
My beloved is the long road.
We are wedded forevermore.
I love him, and him covered
with my silky, black hair.
My kiss is sweet like lilac scent –
the wanderer knows it well…
When he sinks into my arms,
he forgets every hot woman.
My hands are so slender and white,
they cool every fever,
and every brow they touch,
must smile softly, against their will.
I am the night. My veils are
much softer than the white death.
I take every hot ache
into my cool, black boat.
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (February 5, 1924 — December 16, 1942) was a Romanian-born German-language poet.
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