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Die Sonette an Orpheus (Sonnets to Orpheus)

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Rilke's 55 sonnets dedicated to Orpheus. Written in a single burst in 1922 alongside the Duineser Elegien and considered among the finest German lyric poems.

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