Voyage
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG GER GER
[nuage]
Adieu amour nuage qui fuis
et n’a pas chu pluie fécondante
refais le voyage de Dante
[poteau télégraphique]
[oiseau]
télégraphe
oiseau qui laisse tomber
ses ailes partout
[train]
où va donc ce train qui meurt au loin
dans les vals et les beaux bois frais
du tendre été si pâle
[ciel]
la douce nuit lunaire et pleine d’étoiles
c’est ton visage que je ne vois plus
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Note: the poem transcribed above has a pictorial presentation in print. See Poèmes publiés du vivant d'Apollinaire, 1901-1918 [Sorbonne, external site]
1 Poulenc: "féconde"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Voyage", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Reise", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Reise", 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.
Line count: 16
Word count: 67
Voyage
Language: English  after the French (Français)
cloud
Goodbye Love cloud that flees
And has not dropped fertile rain
Make again the voyage of Dante.
[telegraph pole]
[bird]
Telegraph
Bird that lets fall
Its wings everywhere
[train]
Where goes then this train that dies far away
In the valleys and the beautiful cool woods of the
tender summer so pale?
[sky]
The sweet night, moonlit and full of stars,
It is your face that I no longer see.
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2002 by Korin Kormick, (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.
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 71