Gedichte

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Gedichte

by Maurice Maeterlinck

DE·~44 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

VON DIESEM BUCHE WURDEN 20

44:36

Description

A haunting chorus of verses gathers in a glass‑bound greenhouse, where moonlight filters through panes and turns everyday scenes into reveries. The poems move from desolate deserts to fevered hospital wards, each image rendered with a density that feels both ancient and startlingly modern. Their language is rich with mythic whispers, Latin fragments and the occasional nod to Shakespeare, creating a layered tapestry that invites the ear to linger.

At its core, the collection explores yearning and the fragile pulse of the soul. Themes of mercy, temptation, and the slow bleed of hope surface amid recurring symbols of water, lilies, and midnight birds. The voice oscillates between confession and prayer, offering listeners a meditation on the tension between confinement and the yearning for open sky.

When read aloud, the rhythmic cadences echo like a soft chant, drawing the listener into a contemplative space. The ebb and flow of each stanza make it ideal for quiet moments when one wishes to feel the pulse of a hidden garden and the sigh of distant storms.

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Language

de

Duration

~44 minutes (42K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Germany: Eugen Diederichs, 1906.

Credits

Mark C. Orton, Norbert Mueller, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive

Release date

2022-02-13

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

1862–1949

A quiet, dreamlike voice in European literature, this Belgian writer helped shape Symbolist drama and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. His plays and essays often turn simple images—silence, fate, light, bees, blue birds—into something haunting and memorable.

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