One Hour After Midnight

"One Hour After Midnight" is a poem by Hermann Hesse from the year 1899. It is from Hesse's early writings.

History
It was from Helene Voigt, who the next year married Eugen Diederichs, a young publisher. To please his wife, Diederichs agreed to publish Hesse's collection of prose entitled One Hour After Midnight in 1898, although it is dated 1899. The work were a business failure. In two years, and One Hour After Midnight received only one printing and sold sluggishly.