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Lasker-Schüler, Else: Eros (Eros in English)

Portre of Lasker-Schüler, Else

Eros (German)

O, ich liebte ihn endlos!

Lag vor seinen Knie’n

Und klagte Eros

Meine Sehnsucht.

O, ich liebte ihn fassungslos.

Wie eine Sommernacht

Sank mein Kopf

Blutschwarz auf seinen Schoss

Und meine Arme umloderten ihn.

Nie schürte sich so mein Blut zu Bränden,

Gab mein Leben hin seinen Händen,

Und erhob mich aus schwerem Dämmerweh.

Und alle Sonnen sangen Feuerlieder

Und meine Glieder

Glichen

Irrgewordenen Lilien.



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Eros (English)

Oh, I loved him endlessly!

Laid before his knees

And complained to Eros

Of my longing.

Oh, I loved him crazedly.

Like a summer night

My head sank

Blood black onto his lap

And my arms burned onto him.

Never was my blood so stirred to firebrand,

I surrendered my life to his hands,

And he raised me out of heavy twilight pain.

And all suns sang songs of fire

And my limbs

Were like

Bent lilies.



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Source of the quotationhttp://people.bu.edu

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