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Ut signaculum. Je me poserai sur ton cœur Comme le printemps sur la mer, Sur les plaines de la mer stérile Où nulle fleur ne peut croître, A ses souffles agiles, Que des fleurs de lumière. Je me poserai sur ton cœur Comme l'oiseau sur la mer, Dans le repos de ses ailes lasses, Et que berce le rythme éternel Des flots et de l'espace.
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Confirmed with van Lerberghe, Charles, Entrevisions, suivi de Poèmes posthumes, Paris, G. Crès, 1923, page 95.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, appears in Entrevisions, in 2. Le jardin clos, no. 8, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898 [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 René Bernier (1905 - 1984), "Je me poserai sur ton cœur" [ high voice and piano ], from Entrevisions, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. Fernand Lauweryns [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Je me poserai sur ton cœur", op. 106 no. 4 (1914), published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 4, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Em recolzaré al teu cor", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Ik zal me op jouw hart verlaten", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "I shall rest upon your heart", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ich werde auf dein Herze sinken", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Als Zeichen Ich werde auf dein Herze sinken, so wie der Frühling auf das Meer, auf seine weiten Wasserwüsten mit ihrem leichten Atem, wo keine Blume wächst als die des Lichts. Ich werde auf dein Herze sinken, wie ein Vogel auf das Meer, auszuruhn die müden Schwingen, im ew’gen Takt und Ebenmaß der Wellen und des Raums mich wiegen.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, appears in Entrevisions, in 2. Le jardin clos, no. 8, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-14
Line count: 12
Word count: 60