Above you, only the flowers | Above you, only the flowers

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by Josep Janés i Olivé (1913 - 1959)

Translation © by Anna Brull Piñol

Damunt de tu només les flors

Language: Catalan (Català)

Our translations: ENG

Damunt de tu només les flors
Eren com una ofrena blanca:
La llum que daven al teu cos
Mai més seria de la branca;

Tota una vida de perfum
Amb el seu bes t'era donada.
Tu resplendies de la llum
Per l'esguard clos atresorada.

¡Si hagués pogut ésser sospir
De flor! Donar-me, com un llir,
A tu, perquè la meva vida
S'anés marcint sobre el teu pit.

I no saber mai més la nit,
Que al teu costat fóra esvaïda.

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Text Authorship:

by Josep Janés i Olivé (1913 - 1959), first published 1937 [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 Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "Damunt de tu només les flors", 1946-1949 [ voice and piano ], from Combat del somni, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Anna Brull Piñol) , "Above you, only the flowers", copyright © 2014, (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: 14
Word count: 80

Above you, only the flowers

Language: English after the Catalan (Català)

Above you, only the flowers
Were as a white offering:
The light they gave to your body
Would never more return to the branch.
 
A whole life of perfume
With its kiss was given to you
You shone with their light
Which treasured your closed eyes.

Had I been a flower's whisper! --
Then would I have given myself as a lily to you
So that my life would wither 
On your breast

And never more meet the night
That would fade next to you.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in Catalan (Català) by Josep Janés i Olivé (1913 - 1959), first published 1937
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-05
Line count: 14
Word count: 84