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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.
Line count: 17
Word count: 95
Fulcite me floribus. It is dear to me, my love: the blindfold That holds my eyelids closed; It weighs like the sweet burden Of sun on delicate roses. If I advance, how strange! I seem to walk on water; My too-heavy feet, wherever I step Sink as if into rings. Then who has untied, in the shade, The golden weight of my long tresses? Completely enveloped by dark embraces, I plunge into waves of fire. My lips, where my soul sings Completely of extasy and kisses, Open themselves like an ardent flower Above a flaming river.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2016 by Laura Stanfield Prichard, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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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: 2016-02-08
Line count: 17
Word count: 97