nachgedacht

Updated: June 12, 2025

I opened the Buch der Lieder at the poem in his preface the song of the sphinx in the enchanted wood ... and how it clutched the seeker, the poet, to its monstrous but voluptuous woman's breasts as it ravished his soul with kisses. And the nightingale was singing.... "O, shöne Sphinx, O löse mir Das Rätsel, das wunderbare! Ich hab' darüber nachgedacht Schon manche tausand Yahre."

Harry Kemp - Tramping on Life: An Autobiographical Narrative