by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)
Le jardin du ciel
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Un souffle d'ombre teint les roses du talus Et les lys du parterre Tout le feuillage est noir au jardin solitaire Où les fleurs ne sont plus. Mais la nuit orne d'or son dôme et ses pilastres Et je songe, incertain Si le ciel n'a pas pris les fleurs de mon jardin Pour en faire ses astres.
Authorship:
- by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909) [author's text not yet checked 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 Jacques François Antoine Ibert (1890 - 1962), "Le jardin du ciel", 1910, published 1922, copyright © 1922 [ mezzo-soprano or bass and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Anne Papillard) , "The garden of the sky", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Anne Papillard
This text was added to the website: 2010-02-11
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