by Jean Marie Guyau (1854 - 1888)
Lever d'étoiles
Language: French (Français)
Pensive, assise au bord de la fenêtre sombre, Son œil aux longs regards rayonne seul dans l'ombre. Sur sa tête s'étend sans fin le grand ciel pur. Les étoiles des nuits se lèvent dans l'azur, Et par-dessus son front sérieux qui se penche, Chacune vient sans bruit se ranger, douce et blanche, Essaim mystérieux dans son vol arrêté, Qui d'en haut, palpitant, plane sur sa beauté.
Confirmed with Jean Marie Guyau, Vers d'un philosophe, Paris, 1881, page 99.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Marie Guyau (1854 - 1888), "Lever d'étoiles", appears in Vers d'un philosophe, first published 1881 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ivan Ivanovich Tkhorzhevsky (1878 - 1951) , "Сумерки", first published 1901 ; composed by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov.
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