by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Comme un verre de Venise
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Comme un verre de Venise sait en naissant ce gris et la clarté indécise dont il sera épris, ainsi tes tendres mains avaient rêvé d'avance d'être la lente balance de nos moments trop pleins.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 12 [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 Charlotte Bray , "verre de Venise", 2010 [ tenor, piano, and string quartet ], from Verre de Venise, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Comme un verre de Venise", op. 42 no. 4 (1932), published 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 4, Éd. Le Chant du Monde [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Verre de Venise", op. 21 no. 4 (1983) [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Like Venetian glass", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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