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Mon âme vers ton front où rêve, ô calme sœur, Un automne jonché de taches de rousseur, Et vers le ciel errant de ton œil angélique Monte, comme dans un jardin mélancolique, Fidèle, un blanc jet d'eau soupire vers l'Azur ! -- Vers l'azur attendri d'octobre pâle et pur Qui mire aux grands bassins sa langueur infinie Et laisse, sur l'eau morte où la fauve agonie Des feuilles erre au vent et creuse un froid sillon, Se trainer le soleil jaune d'un long rayon.
First published in Le Parnasse contemporain, May 12, 1866.
Text Authorship:
- by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Soupir", written 1864 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Robert Bernard (1900 - 1971), "Soupir" [ mezzo-soprano and orchestra ], from Quatre Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri-Paul Büsser (1872 - 1973), "Soupir", op. 109 no. 3, published 1948 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Soupir", L. 135/(127) no. 1 (1913) [ voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Jorge Delorenzi (b. 1945), "Soupir", published 1988 [ medium voice and piano ], from Homenaje a Poetas Franceses = Hommage aux Poètes Français, no. 3, Buenos Aires, Édition du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Heurtaux , "Soupir", published 1932 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Soupir", 1993-5, first performed 1995 [ coloratura soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Huit Poésies de Mallarmé, no. 8, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Soupir", op. 317 no. 3 (2021) [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Stéphane Mallarmé, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Soupir", M. 64 no. 1 (1913), published 1914 [ voice, 2 flutes, 2 clarinets, 2 violins, viola, cello, piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, no. 1, Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frank Van Nimwegen (b. 1961), "Soupir", 1995 [ SATB chorus ], from Six images intemporelles, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Sospir", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Nicolas Gounin) , "Sigh", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Huokaus", copyright © 2016, (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: 10
Word count: 82
My soul rises towards your brow o calm sister, where there lies dreaming An autumn strewn with russet freckles, And towards the restless sky of your angelic eye, As in a melancholy garden, A white fountain faithfully sighs towards the Azure! Towards the compassionate azure of pale and pure October, Which mirrors its infinite languor in the great pools And, on the stagnant water where the tawny agony Of the leaves stirs in the wind and digs a cold furrow, Lets the yellow sun drag itself out in a long ray.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Soupir", written 1864
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 91