The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Current Verse: Week 21

Ich fühle fruchtend fremde Macht
Sich stärkend mir mich selbst verleihn,
Den Keim empfind ich reifend
Und Ahnung lichtvoll weben
Im Innern an der Selbstheit Macht.

—Rudolf Steiner

Corresponding Verse: Week 32

Ich fühle fruchtend eigne Kraft
Sich stärkend mich der Welt verleihn;
Mein Eigenwesen fühl ich kraftend
Zur Klarheit sich zu wenden
Im Lebensschicksalsweben.

—Rudolf Steiner

I feel an unknown force that ripens,
Which gaining strength, grants me myself;
I sense the seed maturing
And boding light-filled weaving
Within me for my selfhood's power.

—Tr. Daisy Aldan

I feel my forces bearing fruit
Gain strength to give me to the world;
I feel my inner being forceful
To turn toward clarity
In weaving destiny of life.

—Tr. Daisy Aldan

Ripely I feel a Power not my own
grow stronger in bestowing Self on me —
germ becomes fruit,
its hint at Selfhood's might
a pondered Intuition spreading light.

—Tr. Owen Barfield

Ripely I feel a power now my own
grow strong contributing me to the world;
I feel my being gather strength to be
clear-sighted in its web of destiny.

—Tr. Owen Barfield

I feel a strange power bearing fruit
And strength'ning, grant to me myself,
I sense the seed maturing,
And my divining, light-filled
Weave in me on the Selfhood's power.

—Tr. Mabel Cotterell

I feel my own power bearing fruit
And strength'ning, grant me to the World,
My inner self I feel grow stronger
Towards the needed clearness
To share in life's fate's weaving.

—Tr. Mabel Cotterell

I feel the fruitful mystery
Grow strong to give my Self to me;
This seed I sense in its maturing
And premonition, light-filled, weaving
Inwardly upon the Power of self.

—Tr. John F. Gardner

I feel my own force bearing fruit
As growing strong it grants me to the world;
My core of being I feel strengthened
To make its way towards clarity
In life’s fate-weaving.

—Tr. John F. Gardner

I feel a strange creative power
Grow stronger as it lends me to myself.
I feel the life-seed ripen
And inner vision, full of light, is weaving
On the power of Self within.

—Tr. Isabel Grieve

I feel my own creative strength
Grow stronger as I turn me to the world,
I feel my inner being,
Rising with strength to clarity,
Turn to the weaving on the fateful loom of life.

—Tr. Isabel Grieve

I feel a foreign power fructify
And, strengthening itself, now grant my Self to me,
I sense the seed maturing
And dawning vision's radiant light
Weaving within at Selfhood's might.

—Tr. Brigitte Knaack

I feel my own force fructify
And, strengthening itself, now grant me to the world;
I feel my own true being gain the strength
To tum to clarity
As to the weaving of life's destiny.

—Tr. Brigitte Knaack

I feel strange power bearing fruit
And gathering strength, now lend myself to me;
I sense the seed maturing,
And my Divining weave in light
Within myself at Selfhood's power.

—Tr. Ernst Lehrs

I feel my inborn forces bearing fruit
And gathering strength, now lend me to the world,
I feel my Selfhood charge itself with power
To turn towards clarity
In weaving of life's Destiny.

—Tr. Ernst Lehrs

I feel unwonted power spring to fruit
In gaining strength it grants my Self to me.
The seed I sense maturing,
And premonition, light-filled, weaving
At my selfhood's might within.

—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann

I feel own power coming to fruition.
Gaining strength, it gives me to the world.
My own intrinsic being I feel
Grow strong, to turn to clarity
In the weaving of life's destiny.

—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann

I feel a foreign power bearing fruit —
ever-strengthening —
to lead my self back to me.
I have perceived that ripening seed,
and now my intuition, full of light,
weaves within me
the power of my own self.

—Tr. Tom Mellett

I feel my own force is bearing fruit —
strengthening me as a gift to the world.
I feel my own being
filled with forces,
turning me toward enlightenment,
in the weaving destiny of life.

—Tr. Tom Mellett

I feel strange power, bearing fruit
And gaining strength to give myself to me.
I sense the seed maturing
And expectation, light-filled, weaving
Within me on my selfhood's power.

—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch

I feel my own force, bearing fruit
And gaining strength to give me to the world.
My inmost being I feel charged with power
To turn with clearer insight
Toward the weaving of life's destiny.

—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch

I feel fermenting an unfamiliar power
Strengthening, awarding me myself,
A kernel I sense ripening
And weaving light-filled notions
In me about selfhood’s might

—Tr. John Riedel MD

I feel fruiting inherent ways,
Strengthening, bestowing me on the world;
I feel my individuality growing strong,
Till clear in mind I walk my way
Within the destined weave of life.

—Tr. John Riedel MD