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RIDER, DEATH AND DEVIL
[Not marked as such, but probably after the etching Ritter, Tod und Teufel (1513) by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - PA.]
WALTER HEYMANN (1882-1915) Translated by Peter Appelbaum
WALTER HEYMANN (1882-1915) Translated by Peter Appelbaum
A strong brave knight must always ride
With Death and Devil by his side.
The Devil is his lancer man
Sticking the soft parts when he can.
Title: Knight, Death and Devil
The Christian knight in a northern forest
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Germany, signed and dated AD 1513
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: Allegorical Painting
Technique: Engraving
Title: Knight, Death and Devil
The Christian knight in a northern forest
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Germany, signed and dated AD 1513
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: Allegorical Painting
Technique: Engraving
He walks behind; with owl-attack
He looks into his armoured back
The look of death is full of pain
He is the horse’s strong neck-chain.
Who begs impertinent and old
And says to the ghost-rider: hold!
The knight is sitting on his steed
His visor open due to need.
The rider stares and rides and duels
With ghostly comrade that him rules
What weighs his armour down so low
What in his saddle happens so?
A righteous knight has got to ride
With Death and Devil by his side.
Where hell does stink and boils so grim
The Devil has forged arms for him
The armour which the rider wears
Is next to helmet, sword and spears
His leg is splinted all along
He follows whom he serves so long.
But now he must continuously
Death dog-like still accompany.
He is as thin as an old man
But journeys on as best he can.
The knight with pity then is fooled
Although the rider’s lance is hurled.
Hearts blood then comes all streaming out
And death does squint round him about.
He knows the tracery of iron
That rib cage struck by cruel design.
He knows a steel so hard extreme
It pulls from the Last
[Not marked as such, but probably after the etching Ritter, Tod und Teufel (1513) by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) - PA.]
WALTER HEYMANN (1882-1915) Translated by Peter Appelbaum
WALTER HEYMANN (1882-1915) Translated by Peter Appelbaum
A strong brave knight must always ride
With Death and Devil by his side.
The Devil is his lancer man
Sticking the soft parts when he can.
Title: Knight, Death and Devil
The Christian knight in a northern forest
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Germany, signed and dated AD 1513
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: Allegorical Painting
Technique: Engraving
Title: Knight, Death and Devil
The Christian knight in a northern forest
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Germany, signed and dated AD 1513
Style: Northern Renaissance
Genre: Allegorical Painting
Technique: Engraving
He walks behind; with owl-attack
He looks into his armoured back
The look of death is full of pain
He is the horse’s strong neck-chain.
Who begs impertinent and old
And says to the ghost-rider: hold!
The knight is sitting on his steed
His visor open due to need.
The rider stares and rides and duels
With ghostly comrade that him rules
What weighs his armour down so low
What in his saddle happens so?
A righteous knight has got to ride
With Death and Devil by his side.
Where hell does stink and boils so grim
The Devil has forged arms for him
The armour which the rider wears
Is next to helmet, sword and spears
His leg is splinted all along
He follows whom he serves so long.
But now he must continuously
Death dog-like still accompany.
He is as thin as an old man
But journeys on as best he can.
The knight with pity then is fooled
Although the rider’s lance is hurled.
Hearts blood then comes all streaming out
And death does squint round him about.
He knows the tracery of iron
That rib cage struck by cruel design.
He knows a steel so hard extreme
It pulls from the Last