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^{translated from the German by}^{Babette Deutsch}^and^{Avrahm Yarmolinsky}

My springtime, a sobbing hunger,
   my summer, a hot struggle—
                      what
          will my autumn be?

A tardy golden sheaf?

a lake of mist?

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 25, 2025, by the Academy of American Poets.

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Interlude	Edith Sitwell	07/09/2011
Pocket Vampire	Dorothy Barresi	07/08/2011
She Leaves Me Again, Six Months Later	Collier Nogues	07/07/2011
The Woman and the Flame	Aimé Césaire	07/06/2011
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