by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Feierabend
Language: German (Deutsch)
Available translation(s): ENG FRE
Das ist das Glück: am Feierabend müd
Im Bänklein sitzen und ins Weite lauschen,
Wo am Gebirg der Abendglast verglüht
Und ferne Wälder ihren Frieden rauschen.
Hinträumend wandelt in die alten Zeit
Und scheu dein stillgewordner Wunsch zurück
Zu lang verglühten Träumen, Wonnen, Leiden
Und Jugendhoffnungen ...... Das war das Glück.
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Confirmed with Unterwegs. Gedichte von Hermann Hesse, München: Georg Müller Verlag, 1911, page 42.
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- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , "In the evening after work", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Fin de journée", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2013-03-04
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In the evening after work
Language: English  after the German (Deutsch)
That is happiness: weary after a day of work
To sit on a little bench and listen into the distance,
To where the evening glow is extinguished upon the mountains
And distant forests sough their peace.
Dreaming and shy, your now-silent wish wanders
Into the olden times and back
To long extinguished dreams, joys, sorrows
And hopes of youth ...... That was happiness.
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Feierabend", written 1905, appears in Unterwegs, first published 1911
This text was added to the website: 2018-02-06
Line count: 8
Word count: 63