The Swan by Rainer Maria Rilke | Poetry

rila's poem The Swan he says this clumsy living that moves lumbering as if in ropes through what is not done reminds us of the awkward way the swan walks and to die which is a letting go of the ground we stand on and cling to every day is like the swan when he nervously lets him self down into the water which receives him gay which flows joyfully under and after him wave after wave while the Swan unmoving and marvelously calm is pleased to be carried each minute more fully grown more like a king composed farther and farther on