Round 3: Tossup 20

A poem in this collection asks “Would not those dead throw their last coins of happiness” to a pair of lovers. A poem in this collection that asks a being to inscribe an urn with the words “Subrisio Saltat” opens with the line “But tell me, who are they, these wanderers.” In addition to a poem inspired by Picasso’s Family of Saltimbanques, a poem in this collection describes a “lament for Linos” after stating (*) “Beauty is nothing / but the beginning of terror.” (10[1])The declaration “every angel is terrifying” comes (10[1])after the question “Who, if I cried out, (10[1])would hear me among the angelic / orders” in, for 10 points, what collection by Rainer Maria Rilke? ■END■

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