What does "Fills now my cup" mean? In Rilke's poem "Pietà", there is this sentence: > **Fills now my cup** , and past thought is my fulness thereof. I harden as a stone sets hard at its heart. What does "Fills now my cup" mean? In Italian, this is traslated as "misfortune" or "misery".

Your assumption is correct; it means “misery”.

In the German original, the line reads

> Jetzt wird mein Elend voll,

which literally translates as

> Now my misery becomes full