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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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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed 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"Text Authorship:
- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Regen", written 1916, first published 1918/9 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Paul Daepp , "Regen", 1975 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Maurer (1898 - 1959), "Lauer Regen, Sommerregen " [ voice and piano ], from Zehn Lieder nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Regen", op. 41 no. 5 [ high voice and piano ], from Wanderung - Eine Liederfolge für hohe Stimme nach Gedichten von Hermann Hesse, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Otto Siegl (1896 - 1978), "Regen ", op. 76 no. 1, published 1932 [ soprano, four-part mixed chorus a cappella ], from Hermann Hesse Gesänge, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Sharon Krebs) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-05-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 82
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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View text with all available footnotesTranslations of title(s):
"Lauer Regen, Sommerregen" = "Warm rain, summer rain"
"Regen" = "Rain"
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Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Regen", written 1916, first published 1918/9
This text was added to the website: 2019-01-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 105