The poem
Dreamless sleep - the dusky Eagles nightlong rush about my head, man's golden image drowned in timeless icy tides. On jagged reefs his purpling body. Dark echoes sound above the seas.
Stormy sadness' sister, see our lonely skiff sunk down by starry skies: the silent face of night.
I'm new to Trakl's poetry, but I sense a deep longing. a profound deep silence which speaks out of the imagery confronting the poet's reality, his existence, his life. Trakl's images and metaphors speak for him.