PagineRilke wrote the Duino Elegies, the Sonnets to Orpheus and Letters to a Young Poet. His German originals are in the public domain, but most English translations are still in copyright.
We only host poems that are in the public domain, so this page has no poem texts.
Rainer Maria Rilke’s books are in copyright. Borrow them from a library or buy them from the publisher:
Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems are still protected by copyright, so we don’t reproduce them. This page links to legal places to read them: the poet’s publishers, your local library, the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets, which share many poems with permission.
The Book of Hours (1905), Duino Elegies (1923), Letters to a Young Poet (1929).