by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)
La pêche
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Le pêcheur vidant ses filets, Voit les poissons d'or de la Loire Glacés d'argent sur leur nageoire Et mieux vêtus que des varlets. Teints encor des ardents reflets Du soleil et du flot de moire, Le pêcheur vidant ses filets, Voit les poissons d'or de la Loire. Les beaux captifs, admirez-les! Ils [brillent]1 sur la terre noire, Glorifiant de sa victoire, Jaunes, pourpres et violets, Le pêcheur vidant ses filets.
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Confirmed with Le Parnasse contemporain : Recueil de vers nouveaux, Alphonse Lemerre [Slatkine Reprints], 1876, III. 1876, page 22.
1 Hahn: "gisent"Authorship:
- by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "La pêche", written 1875, appears in Les Exilés, in Rondels, no. 14, Paris, Édition Charpentier, first published 1878 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "La pêche", published 1899 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze rondels, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "La pêche", op. 8 no. 1, published [1897] [ medium voice and piano ], from Rondels 2ème série, no. 1, Éd. E. Baudoux & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Fishing", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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