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Слушать(AI)Extinguish Thou My Eyes
Extinguish Thou my eyes:
I still can see Thee,deprive my ears of sound:
I still can hear Thee,and without feet I still can come to Thee,and without voice I still can call to Thee.
Sever my arms from me,
I still will hold Theewith all my heart as with a single hand,arrest my heart, my brain will keep on beating,and Should Thy fire at last my brain consume,the flowing of my blood will carry Thee.
Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming
Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recogn
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