by
Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941)
Le miroir
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
L'odeur de vous flottait dans l'air silencieux :
J'ai vu la chambre vide et la table laissée,
Le livre où palpitait encor votre pensée,
Le miroir qui luisait comme un morceau des cieux ;
Alors, seul, je me suis incliné vers ces choses,
Et j'ai pieusement, de mes deux lèvres closes,
Baisé sur le miroir la place de vos yeux.
Confirmed with Edmond Haraucourt, Seul, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, page 120.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marcel Delannoy (1898 - 1962), "Le Miroir", 1917, published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustave Ferrari (1872 - 1948), "Le miroir", published 1918 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Mélant (1855 - 1916), "Le miroir", published 1903 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, - 4ème recueil, no. 9, Bruxelles, Éd. Imprimerie Nationale [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "The mirror", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 60
The mirror
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Your fragrance floated in the silent air:
I saw the empty room and the table that you left,
the book still vibrant with your thoughts,
the mirror which shone like a bit of heaven.
Then, alone, I bent over these things,
and I piously, with closed lips,
kissed on the mirror the place where your eyes had been.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "Le Miroir", written 1891, appears in Seul, in 2. L'adoration, no. 39, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1891
This text was added to the website: 2006-11-01
Line count: 7
Word count: 58