In the rays of sunset | In the rays of sunset along this rut

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by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas

Translation © by Garrett Medlock

Aux rayons du couchant, le long de cette...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Aux rayons du couchant, le long de cette ornière,
Je vous vois, peupliers revêtus de lumière!
Dans la pénombre, oiseaux, votre cri répété,
Pour la dernière fois a salué l'été!

Va, brode l'horizon, brume délicieuse,
D'émeraude et d'onyx, poussière précieuse…
Je veux me disperser ce soir dans le malheur
De l'automne qui vient, de l'automne en sa fleur…

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Text Authorship:

by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, appears in Les Stances, in 6. Stances, sixième livre, no. 3, Paris, Éd. de La Plume, first published 1901 [author's text not yet checked 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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Aux rayons du couchant", 1927, published 1928 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sonatines vocales sur des poèmes de Jean Moréas - 3. Automne, no. 2, Éd. Rouart Lerolle (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Aux rayons du couchant", 1906, first performed 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les feuilles blessées, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "In the rays of sunset", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sylvain Labartette

This text was added to the website: 2004-12-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 58

In the rays of sunset

Language: English after the French (Français)

In the rays of sunset along this rut
I see you, poplars, covered with light!
In the twilight, birds, your repeated cry
For the last time greeted the summer!

Go, embroider the horizon delicious mist
Of emerald and onyx, precious dust…
I want to scatter myself tonight in the woe
Of the coming autumn, of the autumn in its flower...

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, appears in Les Stances, in 6. Stances, sixième livre, no. 3, Paris, Éd. de La Plume, first published 1901
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This text was added to the website: 2019-02-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 60