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Ô la biche : quel bel intérieur d'anciennes forêts dans tes yeux abonde ; combien de confiance ronde mêlée à combien de peur. Tout cela, porté par la vive gracilité de tes bonds. Mais jamais rien n'arrive à cette impossessive ignorance de ton front.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "La biche", written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 57 [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 Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La biche", op. 42 no. 1 (1932), published 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 1, Éd. Le Chant du Monde [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "La biche", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Theodore Morrison (b. 1938), "La biche", copyright © 1990 [ women's chorus ], from French Songs, no. 1, Earthsongs
Publisher: Earthsongs [external link]  [sung text not yet checked] - by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "La biche", op. 61 no. 2 (1972), published 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 2, Amsterdam, Ed. Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "The doe", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Doe", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das Reh", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 42
Oh Reh: welch Schönheit aus dem Innersten uralter Wälder in deinen Augen leuchtet, wieviel an fester Zuversicht gepaart mit wieviel Furcht. All dieses ist in der behenden Anmut deiner Sprünge. Doch nichts erreicht jemals das scheu Naive deiner Stirn.
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 Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "La biche", written 1924, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 57
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-15
Line count: 9
Word count: 39
