by
Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
Lauer Regen, Sommerregen
Language: German (Deutsch)
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Lauer Regen, Sommerregen
Rauscht von Büschen, rauscht von Bäumen,
Oh, wie gut und voller Segen,
Einmal wieder satt zu träumen!
War so lang im Hellen draussen,
Ungewohnt ist mir dies Wogen:
In der eignen Seele hausen,
Nirgends fremdwärts hingezogen.
Nichts begehr ich, nichts verlang ich,
Summe leise Kindertöne,
Und verwundert heim gelang ich
In der Träume warme Schöne.
Herz, wie bist du wund gerissen
Und wie selig, blind zu wühlen,
Nichts zu denken, nichts zu wissen,
Nur zu fühlen, nur zu fühlen!
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Confirmed with Hermann Hesse, Sämtliche Werke, herausgegeben von Volker Michels, Band 10 Die Gedichte, bearbeitet von Peter Huber, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2002, pages 235-236.
1 Sometimes given incorrectly as "Nur zu atmen und zu fühlen"
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Language: English after the German (Deutsch)
Warm rain, summer rain
Pours from bushes, pours from trees;
Oh, how good it is and full of blessing,
Once more to dream until satiated!
I was out in the brightness so long,
I am not accustomed to this surging:
To dwell in one's own soul
Not to be impelled toward any foreign places.
I desire nothing, I ask for nothing,
I hum quiet childhood tones,
And, marvelling, I arrive at home:
In the warm beauty of dreams.
Heart, how you have been torn and wounded,
And how blissful, to burrow blindly,
To think of nothing, to know nothing,
Only to feel, only to feel!
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Translations of title(s):
"Lauer Regen, Sommerregen" = "Warm rain, summer rain"
"Regen" = "Rain"
1 Sometimes given incorrectly as "Only to breathe and to feel!"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Regen", written 1916, first published 1918/9
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