by
Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval
Avril
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CHI ENG
Déjà les beaux jours, - la poussière,
Un ciel d'azur et de lumière,
Les murs enflammés, les longs soirs; -
Et rien de vert: - à peine encore
Un reflet rougeâtre décore
Les grands arbres aux rameaux noirs!
Ce beau temps me pèse et m'ennuie.
- Ce n'est qu'après des jours de pluie
Que doit surgir, en un tableau,
Le printemps verdissant et rose,
Comme une nymphe fraîche éclose,
Qui, souriante, sort de l'eau.
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- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "四月", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "April", copyright ©, (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.
Line count: 12
Word count: 74
April
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Already, pleasant days - the dust,
A sky of azure and light,
Flaming walls, long evenings; -
And nothing green: - Barely
a reddish reflection still decorates
The big trees with the black branches!
This beautiful weather oppresses and annoys me.
It's only after days of rain
That the greening and pink Spring can emerge, in a picture,
Like a newly born nymph,
Who comes out of the water smiling.
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- a text in French (Français) by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 71