Aujourd'hui l'espace est splendide ! Sans mors, sans éperons, sans bride, Partons à cheval sur le vin Pour un ciel féerique et divin ! Comme deux anges que torture Une implacable calenture, Dans le bleu cristal du matin Suivons le mirage lointain ! Mollement balancés sur l'aile Du tourbillon intelligent, Dans un délire parallèle, Ma sœur, côte à côte nageant, Nous fuirons sans repos ni trêves Vers le Paradis de mes rêves !
Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Le vin, pages 238-239. Note: this was number 97 in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 108 or 132 in subsequent editions.
Note: "trêves" (line 4-2) was misspelled in the first edition as "trèves"
Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Le vin des amants", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 3. Le vin, no. 108, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "Le vin des amants", published 2000 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Chansons, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Noël Lee (1924 - 2013), "Le vin des amants", 1990 [ soprano, clarinet, horn and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan George (1868 - 1933) , "Der Wein der Liebenden" ; composed by Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Gerhard Frommel.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Max Rieple (1902 - 1981) , copyright © ; composed by Otto Erich Schilling.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Siegmund Schmidt.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Víno milenců"
- ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "The Wine of Lovers", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
- ROM Romanian (Română) (Alexandru I. Philippide) , "Beția amanților"
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Word count: 73
To-day the Distance is superb, Without bridle, spur or curb, Let us mount on the back of wine For Regions fairy and divine! Let's, like two angels tortured by Some dark, delirious phantasy, Pursue the distant mirage drawn O'er the blue crystal of the dawn! And gently balanced on the wing Of some obliging whirlwind, we — In equal rapture revelling — My sister, side by side will flee, Without repose, nor truce, where gleams The golden Paradise of my dreams!
Confirmed with Cyril Scott, The Flowers of Evil [by Charles Baudelaire; translated into English verse by Cyril Scott], London: Elkin Mathews, 1909, page 61.
Authorship:
- by Cyril Meir Scott (1879 - 1970), "The Wine of Lovers", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Le vin des amants", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 3. Le vin, no. 108, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-07-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 81