Feuillage du cœur

Sous la cloche de cristal bleu
De mes lasses mélancolies,
Mes vagues douleurs abolies
S'immobolisent peu à peu:

Végétations de symboles,
Nénuphars mornes des plaisirs,
Palmes lentes de mes désirs,
Mousses froides, lianes molles.

Seul, un lys érige d'entre eux,
Pâle et rigidement débile,
Son ascension immobile
Sur les feuillages douloureux,

Et dans les lueurs qu'il épanche
Comme une lune, peu à peu,
Elève vers le cristal bleu
Sa mystique prière blanche.

Translation(s): GER

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Submitted by Harry Joelson

Authorship

• by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Feuillage du cœur", appears in Serres chaudes, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier, first published 1889 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Carlos López Buchardo (1881 - 1948), "Feuillage du cœur", 1915, first performed 1915. [voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
• by Serge Verstockt (b. 1957), "Feuillage du cœur", 1995. [ sung text not verified ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1873 - 1936) , title 1: "Herzgewächse" ENG and by K. L. Ammer , title 1: "Herzgewächse" ENG by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg.
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