place
the Nile
also: Nil
The great river of Egypt, in whose waters Antinous drowned and was made one of the river's 'assuaging gods.'
Reading notes
- New Poems: The Other Part §6 Nile
Antinous drowned in the Nile and was made one of its 'assuaging gods' and set among the stars; the grieving emperor wishes he were 'simply a dead man' instead.
- Duino Elegies §9 potter on the Nile
The river of Egypt; beside its potter, as beside the rope-maker in Rome, one watches a simple thing being made --- the kind of making Rilke would show the Angel.