Potential Titles: Else Lasker-Schüler

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Weaves a veil made of weeping - Else Lasker-Schuler "Homesick" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Who anoints my dead palaces - Else Lasker-Schuler "Homesick" transl. by Michael Hamburger

Pray in languages notched like harps - Else Lasker-Schuler "Reconciliation" transl. by Robert Alter

To be reconciled with the night - Else Lasker-Schuler "Reconciliation" transl. by Robert Alter

And makes my soul obedient to her will - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

That thrill about the sensuous windings of her thought - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

And the dreams thence blossoming - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

And my wan, suffering psyches know new power - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky

Finding their strength in conflict's tortured hour - Else Lasker-Schüler "Sphinx" transl. by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky


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