by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Sur le soupir de l’amie
Language: French (Français)
Sur le soupir de l’amie toute la nuit se soulève, une caresse brève parcourt le ciel ébloui. C’est comme si dans l’univers une force élémentaire redevenait la mère de tout amour qui se perd.
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Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Pages 150, 152.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 15 [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 Natalie Goossens (b. 1976), "Sur le soupir de l'amie", 2020 [ mixed chorus ], from Cinq chansons d’espoir, no. 2, Euprint [sung text checked 1 time]
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