by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Les Anges, sont‑ils devenus discrets!
Language: French (Français)
Les Anges, sont-ils devenus discrets! Le mien à peine m'interroge. Que je lui rende au moins le reflet d'un émail de Limoges. Et que mes rouges, mes verts, mes bleus son oeil rond réjouissent. S'il les trouve terrestres, tant mieux pour un ciel en prémisses.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/5, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 22 [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 Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Les anges", op. 65 (Neuf mélodies) no. 4 (1973) [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-17
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Word count: 45