©HHP 5/15/98

[Hermann Hesse: Bergtal im Tessin, Juli 1925]

Spring Day ...

 
Wind in bushes and bird piping
And high in the highest fresh blue
A haughty cloud ship, becalmed ...
I dream of a blond woman,
I dream of my youth,
The high heaven blue and outspread
Is the cradle of my longing
Where I choose to lie calm
And blessedly warm
With the soft humming,
Just like a child held
On his mother's arm.
 
(1915)
 
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Hermann Hesse's watercolor  is entitled
"Bergtal im Tessin, Juli 1925"
It is the Juli image of the "Hermann Hesse Kalender" for 1994.
© Suhrkamp Verlag, 1993
With the kind permission of © Heiner Hesse, Arcegno, 1997
The poem "Frühlingstag ..." was translated by James Wright © 1970
and published in Poems, New York: The Noonday Press, 1970, N 386, p.53
This book is out-of-print.
 
 
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