by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Départ
Language: French (Français)
Mon amie, il faut que je parte. Voulez-vous voir l'endroit sur la carte? C'est un point noir. En moi, si la chose bien me réussit, ce sera un point rose dans un vert pays.
Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), from Poèmes français.  [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Départ", op. 27 no. 5 (1950-1), published 1952 [voice and piano], from Mélodies passagères, no. 5, Schirmer [text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , title 1: "Departure", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , title 1: "Partença", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Abreise", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 34