À son génie | Envoie-lui les fleurs et les fruits de ta plénitude infinie

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by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

An Ihren Genius

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

Send' ihr Blumen und Frücht' aus nieversiegender Fülle,
Send' ihr, freundlicher Geist, ewige Jugend herab!
Hüll' in deine Wonnen sie ein und laß sie die Zeit nicht
Sehn, wo einsam und fremd sie, die Athenerin, lebt,
Bis sie im Lande der Seeligen einst die fröhlichen Schwestern,
Die zu Phidias Zeit herrschten und liebten, umfängt.

Text Authorship:

by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "An Ihren Genius", appears in Gedichte 1784-1800 [author's text not yet checked 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 Harald Genzmer (1909 - 2007), "An Ihren Genius", 1940-90? [sung text not yet checked]
by Josef Matthias Hauer (1883 - 1959), "An Ihren Genius", op. 32 (Sieben Lieder) no. 4 (1924) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Julius Kniese (1848 - 1905), "An Ihren Genius", op. 7 (Sechs Lieder für 1 Singstimme mit Pianoforte) no. 3, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Kistner [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "À son génie", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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À son génie

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Envoie-lui les fleurs et les fruits de ta plénitude infinie,
  Envoie-lui, esprit amical, une jeunesse éternelle d'en haut !
Entoure-la de ton bonheur et ne la laisse pas voir le temps
  Dans lequel, solitaire et étrangère, l'Athénienne, vit :
Jusqu'à ce quelle prenne  dans le pays des bienheureux un jour les joyeuses sœurs,
  Qui aimaient et gouvernaient au temps de Phidias, dans ses bras.

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Friedrich Hölderlin (1770 - 1843), "An Ihren Genius", appears in Gedichte 1784-1800
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This text was added to the website: 2017-03-02
Line count: 6
Word count: 62