Désirs d'hiver

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

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.

Translation(s): POR

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

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 against a primary source]
• 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 against a primary source]
• by René Doire (1879 - 1959), "Désirs d'hiver" [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
• by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Désirs d'hiver", 1894 [voice and piano], Rio de Janeiro: Vieira Machado [ sung text checked 1 time]

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

• POR Portuguese (Português) (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)

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