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Fulcite me floribus. Il m'est cher, Amour, le bandeau Qui me tient les paupières closes ; Il pèse comme un doux fardeau De soleil sur de faibles roses. Si j'avance, l'étrange chose ! Je parais marcher sur les eaux ; Mes pieds trop lourds où je les pose, S'enfoncent comme en des anneaux. Qui donc a délié dans l'ombre Le faix d'or de mes longs cheveux ? Toute ceinte d'étreintes sombres, Je plonge en des vagues de feu. Mes lèvres où mon âme chante, Toute d'extase et de baiser S'ouvrent comme une fleur ardente Au-dessus d'un fleuve embrasé.
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Confirmed with van Lerberghe, Charles, Entrevisions, suivi de Poèmes posthumes, Paris, G. Crès, 1923, pages 83-84.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 2. Le jardin clos, no. 1, 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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Il m'est cher, Amour, le bandeau", op. 106 no. 7 (1914), published 1915 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "M’és cara, Amor, la bena", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "De liefde, de band, is me kostbaar", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "It’s dear to me, my love, the blindfold", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Teuer ist mir das Band, Geliebter", 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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Word count: 95
Bleibt bei mir, Blumen Teuer ist mir das Band, Geliebter, das mir die Augen bindet; es wiegt wie süße Sonne, die auf matte Rosen sinkt. Und geh’ ich einen Schritt voran, wie seltsam! Es kommt mir dann vor, als schritte ich auf Wasser; wohin auch immer ich die schweren Füße setze, versinken sie, als wär’s in Ringen. Wer denn hat wohl im Dunkel die gold’ne Last aus meinem langen Haar gelöst? Von Düsternis umklammert tauch’ ich in Feuerwogen ein. Wo meine Seele singt vor Küssen und Verzückung, gehn meine Lippen auf wie eine Blüte, flammendrot, die über einem Strom, in Glut getaucht.
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, written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 2. Le jardin clos, no. 1, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-14
Line count: 17
Word count: 103