Modern Paris is often the background of the _New Poems_, and the crass
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
play of light and shadow upon the waxen masks of Life's disillusioned in
the Morgue is caught with the same intense realistic vision as the
flamingos and parrots their vari-coloured soft plumage in the
warmth of the sun in the Avenue of the Jardin des Plantes.
Rilke - Poems
