The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Current 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

Corresponding 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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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 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

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