{"work":{"slug":"rilke","title":{"source":"Neue Gedichte","translated":"New Poems"},"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","language":"German","languageCode":"de","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke"},"unit":{"kind":"poem","number":null,"id":"der-apfelgarten","title":{"source":"Der Apfelgarten","translated":"The Apple Orchard"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-apfelgarten","lines":16},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-leser","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-berufung","license":"Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource. English translation and notes: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC. Narration: synthesized for this edition.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"der-apfelgarten-s1-l1","source":"Komm gleich nach dem Sonnenuntergänge,","translation":"Come just after the setting of the sun;","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Sonnenuntergänge","title":"Compound noun for sunset","body":"Sonnenuntergänge is dative singular here, from Sonnenuntergang, 'sunset', combining Sonne, 'sun', unter, 'under', and Gang, 'going'. nach dem Sonnenuntergänge means 'after the sunset'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Komm","lemma":"kommen","morphology":"verb, imperative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Come"},{"surface":"gleich","lemma":"gleich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nach","gloss":"just"},{"surface":"nach","lemma":"nach","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Komm","gloss":"after"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Sonnenuntergänge","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Sonnenuntergänge","lemma":"Sonnenuntergang","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on nach","gloss":"sunset"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"der-apfelgarten-s1-l2","source":"sieh das Abendgrün des Rasengrunds;","translation":"look at the evening-green of the lawn;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"des Rasengrunds","title":"Genitive after des","body":"des Rasengrunds is genitive singular of der Rasengrund, 'lawn, grassy ground', combining Rasen, 'lawn, turf', and Grund, 'ground'. It depends on Abendgrün, 'evening-green of the lawn'."}],"words":[{"surface":"sieh","lemma":"sehen","morphology":"verb, imperative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"look"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Abendgrün","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Abendgrün","lemma":"Abendgrün","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on sieh","gloss":"evening-green"},{"surface":"des","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Rasengrunds","gloss":"of the"},{"surface":"Rasengrunds","lemma":"Rasengrund","morphology":"noun, genitive, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Abendgrün","gloss":"lawn"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"der-apfelgarten-s1-l3","source":"ist es nicht, als hätten wir es lange","translation":"is it not as though we had long","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als hätten wir","title":"Subjunctive after als, as though","body":"als hätten wir uses hätten, the Konjunktiv II (subjunctive) of haben, 'to have'. als plus the subjunctive means 'as though': 'as though we had long gathered it'."}],"words":[{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on hätten","gloss":"as though"},{"surface":"hätten","lemma":"haben","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on hätten","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on hätten","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"lange","lemma":"lange","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hätten","gloss":"long"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"der-apfelgarten-s1-l4","source":"angesammelt und erspart in uns,","translation":"gathered and saved it up within us,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"angesammelt und erspart","title":"Two past participles, gathered and saved","body":"angesammelt and erspart are past participles of ansammeln, 'to gather, to accumulate', and ersparen, 'to save up'. Together they describe what was 'gathered and saved' in uns, 'within us'."}],"words":[{"surface":"angesammelt","lemma":"ansammeln","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on hätten","gloss":"gathered"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on angesammelt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"erspart","lemma":"ersparen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on und","gloss":"saved"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on erspart","gloss":"within"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"us"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"der-apfelgarten-s2-l1","source":"um es jetzt aus Fühlen und Erinnern,","translation":"in order now, out of feeling and remembering,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"um … hinzustreun","title":"Setting up a later purpose","body":"um here begins an um ... zu construction, 'in order to', completed by hinzustreun several lines later. jetzt aus Fühlen und Erinnern names the material the purpose clause will describe scattering."}],"words":[{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"in order"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on um","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"jetzt","lemma":"jetzt","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on es","gloss":"now"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on jetzt","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"Fühlen","lemma":"Fühlen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"feeling"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Fühlen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Erinnern","lemma":"Erinnern","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"remembering"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"der-apfelgarten-s2-l2","source":"neuer Hoffnung, halbvergeßnem Freun,","translation":"new hope, half-forgotten gladness,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"halbvergeßnem Freun","title":"Gladness, not a friend","body":"Freun is a poetic elision of Freuen, the infinitive of sich freuen, 'to rejoice', used as a noun meaning 'gladness'. It is not related to Freund, 'friend'. halbvergeßnem Freun means 'half-forgotten gladness'."}],"words":[{"surface":"neuer","lemma":"neu","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Hoffnung","gloss":"new"},{"surface":"Hoffnung","lemma":"Hoffnung","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"hope"},{"surface":"halbvergeßnem","lemma":"halbvergessen","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Freun","gloss":"half-forgotten"},{"surface":"Freun","lemma":"Freuen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Hoffnung","gloss":"gladness","note":"Freun is a poetic elision of Freuen ('das Freuen' = rejoicing/gladness), not Freund ('friend')."}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"der-apfelgarten-s2-l3","source":"noch vermischt mit Dunkel aus dem Innern,","translation":"still mingled with darkness from within,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"aus dem Innern","title":"Noun for the inward part","body":"Innern is dative singular of das Innere, 'the inward part, the interior', a noun formed from the adjective inner, 'inner'. aus dem Innern means 'from within'."}],"words":[{"surface":"noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on vermischt","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"vermischt","lemma":"vermischen","morphology":"verb, past participle","role":"past participle describing the (implied) subject continued from an earlier line","gloss":"mingled"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on vermischt","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"Dunkel","lemma":"Dunkel","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"darkness"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Dunkel","gloss":"from"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Innern","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Innern","lemma":"Innere","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"within"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"der-apfelgarten-s2-l4","source":"in Gedanken vor uns hinzustreun","translation":"to scatter out before us in our thoughts,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"hinzustreun","title":"Infinitive completes a purpose clause","body":"hinzustreun is a poetic elision of hinzustreuen, the infinitive of hinstreuen, 'to scatter out', dropping the final -en for the meter. It completes the um ... zu construction begun earlier: 'in order to scatter it out before us'."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on hinzustreun","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Gedanken","lemma":"Gedanke","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"thoughts"},{"surface":"vor","lemma":"vor","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on hinzustreun","gloss":"before"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on vor","gloss":"us"},{"surface":"hinzustreun","lemma":"hinstreuen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the phrase (infinitive depending on an earlier verb)","gloss":"to scatter out","note":"Poetic elision of hinzustreuen, dropping the final -en for meter."}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"der-apfelgarten-s3-l1","source":"unter Bäume wie von Dürer, die","translation":"beneath trees as if by Dürer, which","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"unter Bäume","title":"Accusative shows motion, not location","body":"unter, 'under, beneath', can take either accusative or dative depending on whether motion or location is meant. unter Bäume is accusative, showing motion: 'beneath trees', into that space, not simply resting there."}],"words":[{"surface":"unter","lemma":"unter","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"beneath"},{"surface":"Bäume","lemma":"Baum","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on unter","gloss":"trees"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"conjunction","role":"modifies Bäume","gloss":"as if"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"Dürer","lemma":"Dürer","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"Dürer"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"relative pronoun referring to Bäume, head of the relative clause","gloss":"which"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"der-apfelgarten-s3-l2","source":"das Gewicht von hundert Arbeitstagen","translation":"the weight of a hundred days of labor","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gewicht","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Gewicht","lemma":"Gewicht","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"weight"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Gewicht","gloss":"of"},{"surface":"hundert","lemma":"hundert","morphology":"numeral","role":"depends on Arbeitstagen","gloss":"a hundred"},{"surface":"Arbeitstagen","lemma":"Arbeitstag","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on von","gloss":"days of labor"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"der-apfelgarten-s3-l3","source":"in den überfüllten Früchten tragen,","translation":"bear in their overladen fruit,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überfüllten","title":"Dative plural for overladen","body":"überfüllten is the dative plural of überfüllt, 'overfilled, overladen', from über-, 'over', plus füllen, 'to fill'. in den überfüllten Früchten means 'in their overladen fruit'."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on tragen","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Früchten","gloss":"their"},{"surface":"überfüllten","lemma":"überfüllt","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Früchten","gloss":"overladen"},{"surface":"Früchten","lemma":"Frucht","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"fruit"},{"surface":"tragen","lemma":"tragen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the phrase (infinitive depending on an earlier verb)","gloss":"bear"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"der-apfelgarten-s3-l4","source":"dienend, voll Geduld, versuchend, wie","translation":"serving, full of patience, testing how","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"dienend … versuchend","title":"Two present participles in a row","body":"dienend and versuchend are present participles of dienen, 'to serve', and versuchen, 'to try, to test'. Both describe the same unstated subject, stringing together qualities without a main verb: 'serving, full of patience, testing'."}],"words":[{"surface":"dienend","lemma":"dienen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"head of the phrase, describes the implied subject","gloss":"serving"},{"surface":"voll","lemma":"voll","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on dienend","gloss":"full of"},{"surface":"Geduld","lemma":"Geduld","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on voll","gloss":"patience"},{"surface":"versuchend","lemma":"versuchen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on dienend","gloss":"testing"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"head of the phrase, introduces a clause continuing in the next line","gloss":"how"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"der-apfelgarten-s4-l1","source":"das, was alle Maße übersteigt,","translation":"that which surpasses all measure","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"das, was … übersteigt","title":"A relative clause with was","body":"das, was ... übersteigt uses was as a relative pronoun after the neutral antecedent das, 'that which'. was alle Maße übersteigt means 'which surpasses all measure', with übersteigen, 'to surpass', as the verb."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of übersteigt","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"alle","lemma":"aller","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Maße","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"Maße","lemma":"Maß","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"object of übersteigt","gloss":"measure"},{"surface":"übersteigt","lemma":"übersteigen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause (subject: was)","gloss":"surpasses"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"der-apfelgarten-s4-l2","source":"noch zu heben ist und hinzugeben,","translation":"can still be lifted and given over,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu heben ist","title":"Can still be, passive sense","body":"noch zu heben ist uses zu plus the infinitive to mean 'can still be lifted', a passive sense like nicht mehr zu bestreiten elsewhere in these poems. heben means 'to lift'; hinzugeben means 'to give over'."}],"words":[{"surface":"noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"still"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"heben","lemma":"heben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"be lifted"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"hinzugeben","lemma":"hinzugeben","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"coordinated with heben, depends on ist","gloss":"given over"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"der-apfelgarten-s4-l3","source":"wenn man willig, durch ein langes Leben","translation":"if one, willing, through a long life","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"wenn man","title":"An impersonal subject pronoun","body":"man is an impersonal pronoun meaning 'one, a person', used as the subject of a general statement. wenn man willig ... means 'if one, willing, ...', not naming any particular person."}],"words":[{"surface":"wenn","lemma":"wenn","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on will (der-apfelgarten-s4-l4-w4)","gloss":"if"},{"surface":"man","lemma":"man","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"subject of will (der-apfelgarten-s4-l4-w4)","gloss":"one"},{"surface":"willig","lemma":"willig","morphology":"adjective, nominative, singular","role":"modifies man","gloss":"willing"},{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on will (der-apfelgarten-s4-l4-w4)","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leben","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"langes","lemma":"lang","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Leben","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"Leben","lemma":"Leben","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"life"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"der-apfelgarten-s4-l4","source":"nur das Eine will und wächst und schweigt?","translation":"wills the One thing only, and grows, and stays silent?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/der-apfelgarten-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Eine … schweigt","title":"A noun for the One","body":"das Eine, 'the One thing', is a noun formed from the numeral eine, capitalized and given the article das. nur das Eine will und wächst und schweigt means 'wills, grows, and stays silent only as the One thing does'."}],"words":[{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Eine","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Eine","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Eine","lemma":"eine","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"object of will","gloss":"One thing"},{"surface":"will","lemma":"wollen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence (subject: man)","gloss":"wills"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on will","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"wächst","lemma":"wachsen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with will, depends on und","gloss":"grows"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wächst","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"schweigt","lemma":"schweigen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"coordinated with will, depends on und","gloss":"stays silent"}]}]}