Désirs d'hiver | Je pleure les lèvres fanées

by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)

Désirs d'hiver

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG

Je pleure les lèvres fanées
Où les baisers ne sont pas nés
Et les désirs abandonnés
Sous les tristesses moissonnées.

Toujours la pluie à l'horizon !
Toujours la neige sur les grèves,
Tandis qu'au seuil clos de mes rêves,
Des loups couchés sur le gazon

Observent en mon âme lasse
Les yeux ternis dans le passé,
Tout le sang autrefois versé
Des agneaux mourants sur la glace.

Seule la lune éclaire enfin
De sa tristesse monotone
Où gèle l'herbe de l'automne,
Mes désirs malades de faim.

First published in Parnasse de la Jeune Belgique, Paris, éd. L. Vanier, 1887, p. 220, and then in 1889 in Serres chaudes.

Text Authorship:

by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Désirs d'hiver", appears in Serres chaudes, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier [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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Désirs d'hiver", op. 12 no. 4 (1933), published 1962 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from Quatre poèmes de Maeterlinck, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. CéBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Béesau (1871 - 1940), "Désirs d’hiver", published 1920 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 16, Paris, Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Désirs d'hiver" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by René Doire (1879 - 1959), "Désirs d'hiver" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Luís de Freitas Branco (1890 - 1955), "Désirs d'Hiver", 1913, published 1997 [ medium voice and piano ], from Canções Francesas - Serres chaudes, Ciclo Maeterlinckiano, no. 1, Éd. Musicoteca Lisboa [sung text not yet checked]
by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Désirs d'hiver", 1894 [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Vieira Machado [sung text checked 1 time]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by D. Fridberg ; composed by Boris Vasilyevich Karagichev.
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POR Portuguese (Português) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

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This text was added to the website: 2010-07-18
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Word count: 85