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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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Untitled [The more I go, the harder it becomes to return]	Jennifer Denrow	03/15/2011
A Meadow	Lucie Brock-Broido	03/14/2011
The Coming of War: Actaon	Ezra Pound	03/13/2011
The Uses of Poetry	William Carlos Williams	03/12/2011
Exoskeletal Gesture	Eric Baus	03/11/2011
Lament of the Middle Man	Jay Parini	03/10/2011
Egg Candling	Joyce Peseroff	03/09/2011
Complaint	William Logan	03/08/2011