Arme Schwestern, liebe Schmerzen, Seid nicht ihr auch Gottesgaben? Aber keiner will euch haben. Wohnet denn in meinem Herzen! Alle Lust der Welt zu haschen, Gierig bin ich ausgezogen, Kam geplündert, kam betrogen, Müde heim mit leeren Taschen. Die ich einst so sehr verachtet, Liebe Schmerzen, seid gesegnet, Die ihr mir so reich begegnet, Mich so innig nun umnachtet! Heiß durchflutet euer Glühen Meines Blutes dunkle Wogen, Die, von euch emporgesogen, Tiefer atmen, schöner blühen.
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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, page 309.
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- by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962), "Liebe Schmerzen", written 1927, first published 1927 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
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