by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Contrée ancienne, aux tours qui...
Language: French (Français)
Contrée ancienne, aux tours qui insistent tant que les carillons se souviennent -, aux regards qui, sans être tristes, tristement montrent leurs ombres anciennes. Vignes où tant de forces s'épuisent lorsqu'un soleil terrible les dore... Et, au loin, ces espaces qui luisent comme des avenirs qu'on ignore.
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- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 4 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- by Λrthvr , "Contrée ancienne", 2019 [ voice ] [sung text not yet checked]
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