Mémoire | C'est fini ! je l'ai¹ vu dans mes rêves

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by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Remembrance

Language: English

Our translations: CHI FRE GER

'Tis done! -- I saw [it]¹ in my dreams;
No more with Hope the future beams; 
  My days of happiness are few: 
Chill'd by misfortune's wintry blast, 
My dawn of life is overcast; 
  Love Hope, and Joy, alike adieu! 
  Would I could add Remembrance too!

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• E. Moór

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Confirmed with The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, London: Oxford University Press Humphrey Milford, 1933, page 38.

¹ Moór: "you"

Text Authorship:

by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Remembrance", written 1806, appears in Hours of Idleness, first published 1832 [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 Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Remembrance", op. 323 (Sieben Lieder nach George Lord Byron) no. 1 (2021) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Emanuel Moór (1863 - 1931), "Remembrance", op. 13 (Sechzehn Lieder) no. 15, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
by Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983), "Remembrance" [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864) , "Erinnerung" ; composed by Josephine Lang.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , "回忆", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Mémoire", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Erinnerung", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2003-10-19
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Word count: 45

Mémoire

Language: French (Français) after the English

C'est fini ! je [l'ai]¹ vu dans mes rêves;
Le futur ne rayonne plus d'Espoir;
Peu nombreux sont mes jours de bonheur :
Frigorifié par le souffle glacial du malheur
L'aube de ma vie fut sombre;
Amour, Espoir et Joie, à tous adieu !
Que ne puis-je aussi ajouter Mémoire !

¹ Moór: "vous ai"

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Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2018 by Pierre Mathé, (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 English by George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824), "Remembrance", written 1806, appears in Hours of Idleness, first published 1832
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This text was added to the website: 2018-08-04
Line count: 7
Word count: 47