Best Hermann Poems
Categories:
hermann, books, eulogy,
Form:
Free verse
Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game."
"Stages" or "Steps"
by Hermann Hesse
from his novel The Glass Bead Game
translation by Michael R. Burch
As every flower wilts and every youth
must wilt...
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Categories:
hermann, courage, death, flower, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Hermann Hesse translation of 'Secretly We Thirst'Hermann Hesse English Translations
Secretly We Thirst…
by Hermann Hesse
from The Glass Bead Game
translation by Michael R. Burch
Charismatic, spiritual, with the gracefulness of arabesques,
our lives resemble fairies’ pirouettes,
spinning gently through the nothingness
to which we sacrifice our beings and the present.
Whirling dreams of quintessence and loveliness,
like breathing in...
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Categories:
hermann, birth, dance, death, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Hermann Hesse translation of 'The Poet' and 'Without You'The Poet
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch
Only upon me, the lonely one,
Do this endless night’s stars shine
As the fountain gurgles its faery song.
For me alone, the lonely one,
The shadows of vagabond clouds
Float like dreams over slumbering farms.
What is mine lies beyond possession:
Neither manor, nor...
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Categories:
hermann, hair, lonely, love, night,
Form:
Free verse
Siddhartha translation by Michael R BurchSiddhartha (The Buddha)
by Hermann Hesse
translation by Michael R. Burch
In the house-shade,
by the sunlit riverbank beyond the bobbing boats,
in the Salwood forest’s deep shade,
beneath the shade of the fig tree,
that’s where Siddhartha grew up.
Siddhartha, the handsomest son of the Brahman,
like a young falcon,
together with his...
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Categories:
hermann, boat, father son, friend,
Form:
Free verse