When you hold your lamp in the sky
Language: English  after the Bangla (Bengali)
Available translation(s): FRE
When you hold your lamp in the sky
it throws its light on my face
and its shadow falls over you.
When I hold the lamp of love in my heart
its light falls on you and I am left
standing behind in the shadow.
About the headline (FAQ)
Note: the original has two lines; line breaks have been added to let us see the translations in parallel.
Confirmed with Fruit-Gathering, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from Bengali to English by the author, New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
Authorship:
Based on:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
[ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Andrew Schneider
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2017-04-25
Line count: 6
Word count: 45
Quand tu lèves ta lampe vers le ciel
Language: French (Français)  after the English
Quand tu lèves ta lampe vers le ciel
elle jette sa lumière sur mon visage
et son ombre tombe sur toi.
Quand je lève la lampe de l'amour dans mon cœur
sa lumière tombe sur toi et je suis laissé
me tenant dans l'ombre.
About the headline (FAQ)
Authorship:
- Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2017 by Guy Laffaille, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net
Based on:
Based on:
This text was added to the website: 2017-04-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 44