What is the title of the poem from 'The Time Travelers Wife'?

Question

I know there are many poems from this book but it is by Ranier Maria Rilke and Clare says, "say the poem about the lovers on the carpet?" when she is in labor, and Henry starts to say it in German, then reverts to English. I rember something about ladders leaning, and the words 'final, forever saved up'. If you could help me, I'd be very grateful.

Answer 1

Angel! Were there an unknown place
where, upon an uncanny carpet, lovers
could disport themselves in ways
here inconceivable-daring ariel maneuvers
of the heart, scaling high plateaus of passion,
ladders leaning one against the other,
planted trembling upon the void...
Were there such a place, would their
performance prove convincing to an audience
of the innumerable and silent dead?
Would not these dead toss down their
final, hoarded, secret coins of joy,
legal tender of eternity, before the
couple smiling on that detumescent carpet,
fully satisfied?

. . . Rainer Maria Rilke

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