Tyndaris | Oh, white Tyndaris, the gods hold me dear

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by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)

Translation © by Emily Ezust

Tyndaris

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ITA SPA

Ô blanche Tyndaris, les Dieux me sont amis :
  Ils aiment les Muses Latines;
Et l'aneth et le myrte et le thym des collines
  Croissent aux prés qu'ils m'ont soumis.

Viens ; mes ramiers chéris, aux voluptés plaintives,
  Ici se plaisent à gémir ;
Et sous l'épais feuillage il est doux de dormir
  Au [bord]¹ des sources fugitives.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• R. Hahn

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¹ Hahn: "bruit"

Text Authorship:

by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "Tyndaris", written 1852, appears in Poèmes antiques, in Études latines, no. 15, Paris, Éd. Librairie Marc Ducloux, first published 1852 [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 Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Tyndaris", published <<1912 [ medium voice and piano ], from Seize mélodies, no. 40, Paris, Maurice Sénart, B. Roudanez et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Tyndaris", published 1900, from Études Latines, no. 7, Paris, Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Tyndaris", copyright © 2016
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Tyndaris", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Tyndaris", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 56

Tyndaris

Language: English after the French (Français)

Oh, white Tyndaris, the gods hold me dear:
  They love the Latin Muses;
And dill and myrtle and thyme from the hills
  Grow in the meadows they gave me.

Come; my cherished wood pigeons, luxuriating in sorrow,
  Moan happily here;
And beneath thick foliage it is sweet to sleep
  [Beside]¹ fleeing water.

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¹ in the Hahn version this is translated "To the sound of"

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Emily Ezust
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "Tyndaris", written 1852, appears in Poèmes antiques, in Études latines, no. 15, Paris, Éd. Librairie Marc Ducloux, first published 1852
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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-11
Line count: 8
Word count: 53