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Fleurs qu'adore La beauté, Ciel que dore La gaîté, [Hors la ville, Frais asile, Mer tranquille]1, C'est l'été ! Lune pleine, Mer qui luit, Tiède haleine Qui la suit. Sous la treille, Douce veille, Sans pareille : C'est la nuit ! Feu qui dore Tout séjour Et dévore Chaque jour, Deuil et fête, Dans la tête Du poète : C'est l'amour !
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with Joseph Méry, Mélodies poétiques, Paris, Victor Lecou, 1853, pages 60-61.
1 Meyerbeer:Loin des villes Frais asiles, Flots tranquilles
Text Authorship:
- by François Joseph Pierre André Méry (1798 - 1865), "Trinité du poète", appears in Mélodies poétiques [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 Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864), "Sicilienne", c1845 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Sicilienne", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Low [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2006-05-31
Line count: 24
Word count: 59
Blüten, die die Schönheit lieben, Himmel, Heiterkeit vergoldend, fern der Städte kühle Zuflucht, stille Ströme: Sommer ist’s. Voll der Mond und Meeresglitzern, milder Hauch herüberweht. In der Laube süßes Wachen ohnegleichen: Es ist Nacht. Feuer: Gold wird all Verweilen - es verschlinget Tag um Tag. Fest und Trauer sind im Herzen des Poeten. Liebe ist’s.
Note: a fourth stanza consisting mainly of repeated lines exists in some editions. Here is the translation:
Blüten, die die Schönheit lieben, Himmel, Heiterkeit vergoldend, Voll der Mond und Meeresglitzern, milder Hauch herüberweht. Feuer: Gold wird all Verweilen - es verschlinget Tag um Tag. Liebe ist’s, Sommer ist’s, es ist Nacht.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 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 François Joseph Pierre André Méry (1798 - 1865), "Trinité du poète", appears in Mélodies poétiques
This text was added to the website: 2017-06-07
Line count: 24
Word count: 54