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Слушать(AI)In The East
Like the wild organs of the winter
Is the people gloomy rage,
The purple billow of
Of stars leaf-stripped.
With broken brows, silvery
The night beckons to dying soldiers.
In the autumnal ash-tree’s
The ghosts of the killed are sighing.
Thorny wilderness surrounds the town.
From steps that bleeds the
Drives off dumbfounded women.
Wild wolves have burst through the gate.
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl (3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most im
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