Les grands vents venus d'outremer
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG GER SAN
Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer
Passent par la Ville, l'hiver,
Comme des étrangers amers.
Ils se concertent, graves et pâles
Sur les places, et leurs sandales
Ensablent le marbre des dalles.
Comme de crosses à leurs mains fortes,
Ils heurtent l'auvent et la porte
Derrière qui l'horloge est morte ;
Et les adolescents amers
S'en vont avec eux vers la Mer!
Confirmed with Henri de Régnier, Tel qu’en songe, Librairie de l’Art Indépendant, Paris, 1892. Note: Ravel's title leaves out the hyphen in the last word.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Robert Francès (1919 - 2012), "Les grands vents venus d'outre-mer", published 2002 [ high voice and piano ], from Paysages musicaux, no. 1, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Les grands vents venus d'outremer", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Les grands vents venus d'outremer", M. 48 (1906), published 1907 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The great gusts coming from overseas", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , "Die großen Winde, aus Übersee gekommen", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SAN Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) (Holger Christian Teipel-Jahr) , copyright © 2021, (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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Word count: 61
The great gusts coming from overseas
Language: English  after the French (Français)
The great gusts coming from overseas
Pass through the city, in the winter,
Like bitter foreigners.
They make plans, solemn and pale,
In the plazas, and their sandals
Silt up the marble flagstones.
As if their strong hands hold rifle butts,
They slam into the awning and the door
Behind which the clock has stopped.
And the bitter adolescents
Go with them to the sea!
Authorship:
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