I posted in my Mythology class Edmodo site Robert Hunter's English translation of Rilke's masterpiece. Here is a link to about half of them, from Cliff Crego:
http://cs-music.com/features/sonnets-to-orpheus.html
"Gesang ist Dasein/ Song is being" III. Sonnet
Rilke wrote all 55 of these in about a month. At the time he was finishing the "Duino Elegies". I feel like such a slacker.
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