News at Eleven: [Rainer Maria] Rilke's late work is knotted

and dense, and any rendering into another language of these final poems is bound to fail, however honorably. The finest translation of "Komm du" that I know of was published in the Times Literary Supplement in December 1975 accompanying an essay on Rilke by Walter Kaufmann:

You are the last I recognize; return,
pain beyond help that sears the body's cells:

from The New York Review of Books: Translating Rilke: An Exchange

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