{"id":5853,"date":"2023-02-07T07:23:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/?p=5853"},"modified":"2023-02-07T07:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T08:23:03","slug":"752-christmas-rainer-maria-rilke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/752-christmas-rainer-maria-rilke\/","title":{"rendered":"752 | Christmas &#8211; Rainer Maria Rilke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5854 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-752-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"kato met kaars voor het gedicht 752 Christmas\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-752-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-752-200x251.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Afbeelding-752.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Painting by Kelli Fomson, USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Christmas<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The winter storms penetrate<br \/>\nthe world with furious power.<br \/>\nThere sinks on snowy wings,<br \/>\nthe fir-scented night . . .<\/p>\n<p>There floats by the light of the candles<br \/>\nquietly, hardly meaning it,<br \/>\nthrough poor wandering hearts\u2014<br \/>\nFaith\u2014once it was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\nThere gleam tears in the eye,<br \/>\nyou flee the joy\u2014and weep.<br \/>\nLongingly, you recall your childhood\u2014<br \/>\nOh, if only it were as it once was!<\/p>\n<p>You cry! The bells are ringing.<br \/>\nIt descends in festive splendor,<br \/>\ndescends on snowy wings,<br \/>\nthe fir-scented night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rainer Maria Rilke<\/strong>, (1875-1926)<\/p>\n<p><em>Translation by Germain Droogenbroodt \u2013 Stanley Barkan<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Weihnacht\/\/ <\/em><\/strong><em>Die Winterst\u00fcrme durchdringen\/die Welt mit w\u00fctender Macht\/da sinkt auf schneeigen Schwingen\/die tannenduftende Nacht\/Da schwebt beim Scheine der\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weihnachtsgedichte-sprueche.net\/kerzen-licht.html\"><em>Kerzen<\/em><\/a><em>\/ganz leis nur, kaum, dass du\u2019s meinst,\/durch arme irrende Herzen\/ der Glaube &#8211; ganz so wie einst&#8230;\/Da schimmern im Auge Tr\u00e4nen,\/du fliehst die Freude &#8211; und weinst,\/der Kindheit gedenkst du mit Sehnen, oh, w\u00e4r es noch so wie einst! \/\/ Du weinst!&#8230; die Glocken erklingen\/es sinkt in festlicher Pracht\/herab auf schneeigen Schwingen<br \/>\ndie tannenduftende Nacht.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Painting by Kelli Fomson, USA \u00a0 Christmas The winter storms penetrate the world with furious power. There sinks on snowy wings, the fir-scented night . . . There floats by the light of the candles quietly, hardly meaning it, through poor wandering hearts\u2014 Faith\u2014once it was. There gleam tears in the eye, you flee the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5853\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.point-editions.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}