Ô rêveuse, pour que je plonge

Ô rêveuse, pour que je plonge
Au pur délice sans chemin,
Sache, par un subtil mensonge,
Garder mon aile dans ta main.

Une fraîcheur de crépuscule
Te vient à chaque battement
Dont le coup prisonnier recule
L'horizon délicatement.

Vertige ! voici que frissonne
L'espace comme un grand baiser
Qui, fou de naître pour personne,
Ne peut jaillir ni s'apaiser.

Sens-tu le paradis farouche
Ainsi qu'un rire enseveli
Se couler du coin de ta bouche
Au fond de l'unanime pli.

Le sceptre des rivages roses
Stagnants sur les soirs d'or, ce l'est
Ce vol blanc fermé que tu poses
Contre le feu d'un bracelet.

Translation(s): ENG FIN

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Authorship

• by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Autre éventail", subtitle: "de Madame Mallarmé" [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Éventail", L. 135/(127) no. 3 (1913), published 1913 [voice and piano], from Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]
• by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Autre éventail", 1993-5, first performed 1995 [coloratura soprano and orchestra or piano], from Huit Poésies de Mallarmé, no. 3, Mainz, Schott [ sung text not verified ]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Nicolas Gounin) , "Fan", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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