by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
T'appuyant, fraîche, claire
Language: French (Français)
T'appuyant, fraîche, claire rose, contre mon œil fermé -, on dirait mille paupières superposées contre la mienne chaude. Mille sommeils contre ma feinte sous laquelle je rôde dans l'odorant labyrinthe.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 7, first published 1927 [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 Stanley Grill (b. 1953), "T'appuyant, fraîche, claire", copyright © 2019 [ soprano, oboe and violin ], from Selections from Les Roses, no. 2, confirmed with an online score [sung text checked 1 time]
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