Versos English Rainer Maria Rilke Kings In Legends

English poem

Kings In Legends

by (1875–1926)

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Kings in old legends seem Like mountains rising in the evening light. They blind all with their gleam, Their loins encircled are by girdles bright, Their robes are edged with bands Of precious stones--the rarest earth affords-- With richly jeweled hands They hold their slender, shining, naked swords.