by
Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)
Printemps triste
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): CAT CHI ENG
Nos sentiers aimés s'en vont refleurir
Et mon cœur brisé ne peut pas renaître.
Aussi chaque soir me voit accourir
Et longuement pleurer sous ta fenêtre.
Ta fenêtre vide où ne brille plus
Ta tête charmante ett ton doux sourire ;
Et comme je pense à nos jours perdus,
Je me lamente, et je ne sais que dire.
Et toujours les fleurs, et toujours le ciel,
Et l'âme des bois dans leur ombre épaisse
Murmurant en choeur un chant éternel
Qui se répond dans l'air chargé d'ivresse !
Et la mer qui roule au soleil levant,
Emportant bien loin toutes mes pensées...
Qu'elles aillent donc sur l'aile du vent
Jusques à toi, ces colombes blessées !
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Primavera trista", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "伤感的春天", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "Springtime of sorrow", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 16
Word count: 116
Springtime of sorrow
Language: English  after the French (Français)
The paths we loved will flower again
and my broken heart cannot be reborn.
Each evening finds me weeping
endless tears under your empty window,
where your charming head
and sweet smile no longer shine.
When I think of our lost days,
I mourn and am speechless.
And always the flowers, always the sky,
and the soul of the woods in its thick shadow
murmur in eternal chorus.
The answers are in the heavily intoxicated air!
And the sea rolls on in the rising sun,
sweeping all my thoughts away with it.
May my thoughts, these wounded doves,
ride far away on the wings of the wind until they reach you!
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Line count: 16
Word count: 111