Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the orders of the angels?"
The last section of the third of these begins by asking "…are you/ able to know anything of/the eternal darkness which/you stirred in your lover?" before later entreating the addressee to "show him the counterweight of darkness…/Stop him…" In a later one, the speaker notes that he has "long found it significant" that the fig tree "omit[s], almost entirely, to flower."; that one follows one dedicated "to Frau Hertha Koenig" which asks "Who are these rambling acrobats/less secure than even we?" The first of the set, which was inspired by some cliffs the author came across near the castle he was staying in, begins "Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the orders of the angels?" Containing a shit-ton more allusions to angels, FTP, name this set of ten poems by Rainer Maria Rilke named for a region in Italy.
The last section of the third of these begins by asking "…are you/ able to know anything of/the eternal darkness which/you stirred in your lover?
the {Duino Elegies} (or {Duineser Elegien}) (2) [RC]