Rilke wrote them "to Orpheus"(7)
Written around the turn of the 
century, and .... go to selected Sonnets to Orpheus twenty-three poems in the 
order [DOC] [TLE] Rilke on the Web: An Annotated Compendium - Picture/Poems [PAR] (7) The Sonnets to Orpheus Translations by Howard A. Landman, all 55 poems ... 
"Requiem" as well as the love poems Rilke wrote for Modersohn-Becker soon 
after ... Ah, poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life."