Air vif

Le trésor du verger et le jardin en fête,
Les fleurs des champs, des bois, éclatent de plaisir,
Hélas! hélas! Et sur leur tête le vent enfle sa voix.

Mais toi noble océan que l'assaut des tourmentes 
Ne saurait ravager
Certes plus dignement, lorsque tu te lamentes,
Tu te prends à songer.

Translation(s): ENG ENG GER GER

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Submitted by Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Authorship

• by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas [ 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Air vif", FP. 46, from Airs chantés, no. 4. [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

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

• ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Lively air", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Lebhafte Weise", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , title 1: "Lebhaftes Lied", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Linda Godry) , title 1: "Lively song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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Lebhafte Weise

Der Reichtum des Obstgartens und der Garten im Festgewande,
die Blumen auf dem Felde und im Walde bersten vor Glück,
aber ach -- über ihnen erhebt der Wind seine Stimme.

Du jedoch, edler Ozean, den das Toben der Stürme
nicht verwüsten konnte,
gewiss wirst du, mit mehr Würde, wehklagst du erst,
dich in Träumen verfangen.

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Authorship

• Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in French (Français) by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas ENG ENG
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Francis Poulenc. Go to the text.

Text added to the website: 2008-02-25.
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