Le couchant dardait ses rayons suprêmes Et le vent berçait les nénuphars blêmes ; Les grands nénuphars entre les roseaux Tristement luisaient sur les calmes eaux. Moi j'errais tout seul, promenant ma plaie [Au]1 long de l'étang, parmi la saulaie Où la brume vague évoquait un grand Fantôme laiteux [se]2 désespérant Et pleurant avec la voix des sarcelles Qui se rappelaient en battant des ailes Parmi la saulaie où j'errais tout seul Promenant ma plaie ; et l'épais linceul Des ténèbres vint noyer les suprêmes Rayons du couchant [dans]3 ses ondes blêmes Et des nénuphars, parmi les roseaux, Des grands nénuphars sur les calmes eaux.
Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Paysages tristes, pages 51-52.
1 Vierne: "Le"2 Vierne: "et"
3 Vierne: "en"
Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Promenade sentimentale", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 3, Paris, Édition Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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 Mathieu Alvado (b. 1978), "Promenade sentimentale", 2006, published 2008 [ soprano and piano ], Éd. Delatour France [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Promenade sentimentale", 1886, published 1902 [ voice and piano ], from Paysages tristes, no. 4, Paris, Mergault ; later published by Hamelle in 1912 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Gradis (1861 - 1943), "Promenade sentimentale", published 1897 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann (1885 - 1956), "Promenade sentimentale", op. 69 no. 3, published 1941 [ voice and piano ], from Paysages tristes, no. 3, Paris, Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry de Marliave , "Promenade sentimentale" [ voice and piano ], Paris, H. Marliave [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Promenade sentimentale", op. 57 no. 3 (1995), published 2001 [ SATT chorus ], from Sieben Chansons zu vier Stimmen nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 3, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Promenade sentimentale", op. 38 no. 4 (1916), published 1924 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Spleens et Détresses, no. 4, Paris, Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandra Andreyevna Kublitskaya-Piotukh, née Beketova (1860 - 1923) ; composed by Ivan Ivanovich Kryzhanovsky.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Aleksandr Matveyevich Zhitomirsky.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Sentimental stroll", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Promenade Sentimental", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 3
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 105
Tayalo solnce v proshhal`ny'x luchax; nimf vodyany'x py'shno czvetny'ya licza grustno bledneli na tyomny'x vodax, chut` koly'xaya svoi verenicy'. Shyol ya odin s bezisxodnoj toskoj Vdol` beregov, gde raskinulis` ivy'. Tuskly'j tuman vy'rostal predo mnoj, prizrak neyasny'j, sy'roj i tosklivy'j. Gor`ko ya plakal, i pticy' rechnoj slovno v otvet razdavalis` prizy'vy' vdol` beregov, gde raskinulis` ivy', gde ya brodil s bezisxodnoj toskoj. I pogruzilis` v sumrak bezmolvny'j blednoe nebo i grustny'ya volny', i py'shnoczvetny'ya licza czvetov nimf vodyany'x mezh gusty'x trostnikov.
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Authorship:
- by Aleksandra Andreyevna Kublitskaya-Piotukh, née Beketova (1860 - 1923) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Promenade sentimentale", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 3, Paris, Édition Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Ivan Ivanovich Kryzhanovsky (1867 - 1924), "Таяло солнце", op. 19 (Четыре стихотворения П. Верлена для голоса с фортепиано (Chetyre stikhotvorenija P. Verlena dlja golosa s fortepiano)) no. 4, published 1922 [ voice and piano ], Moskva-Petrograd : Gosudarstvennoje Izdatel'stvo Muzykal'nyj Sektor [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2012-01-15
Line count: 16
Word count: 81