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Sonnets to Orpheus

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Sonnets to Orpheus were written by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) in 1922 as a Grave-monument for Vera Ouckama Knoop (1900-1919), a playmate of Rilke's daughter Ruth.