by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
Translation by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912)
Les paons nonchalants, les paons blancs...
Language: French (Français)
Les paons nonchalants, les paons blancs ont fui, Les paons blancs ont fui l'ennui du réveil; [Je vois]1 les paons blancs, les paons d'aujourd'hui, Les paons [en]2 allés pendant mon sommeil, Les paons nonchalants, les paons d'aujourd'hui, Atteindre indolents l'étang sans soleil, J'entends les paons blancs, les paons de l'ennui, Attendre indolents les temps sans soleil.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Cogni: "Je ne vois" 2 Cogni: "sont"
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Ennui", appears in Serres chaudes, first published 1889 [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 Adolfo Cogni , "Les paons nonchalants", copyright © 1977 [ voice and piano ], BMG Ricordi Music Publishing [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Ennui", 2020 [ soprano and piano ], from Chansons de Maeterlinck, no. 8, SMP Press [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 - 1924) , "Уныние" ; composed by Aleksandr Matveyevich Zhitomirsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Nuda"
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2017-05-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 58
Nuda
Language: Czech (Čeština) after the French (Français)
Ti lhostejní pávi, ti bílí pávi uprchli, ti bílí pávi uprchli před nudou probuzení; já vidím bílé pávy, pávy dnešní, pávy v alejích, co spím, pávy lhostejné, pávy dnešní, lhostejně dospěli k rybníku bez slunce, já slyším bílé pávy, pávy nudy, lhostejně dospěli k čárům bez slunce.
Text Authorship:
- by Jaroslav Vrchlický (1853 - 1912), "Nuda" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Ennui", appears in Serres chaudes, first published 1889
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2025-07-15
Line count: 8
Word count: 47