En les tenebres del jardí

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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Dans les ténèbres du jardin

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT

Dans les ténèbres du jardin
Viennent des filles invisibles
Plus fines qu'à midi l'ondée
Mon sommeil les a pour amies
Elles m'enivrent en secret
De leurs complaisances aveugles.

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Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 1, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 1027.

Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1938, appears in Le livre ouvert, in 1. Le livre ouvert, I, in Vue donne vie, no. 4, Éd. des Cahiers d'Art, first published 1940 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Dans les ténèbres du jardin", FP 147 no. 4 (1950), published 1951 [ medium voice and piano ], from La Fraîcheur et le feu, no. 4, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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En les tenebres del jardí

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

En les tenebres del jardí
Vénen donzelles invisibles
Més delicades que la pluja del migdia
El meu son les té per amigues
M’inebrien en secret
Amb les seves complaences cegues.

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Translations of titles:
"Dans les ténèbres du jardin" = "En les tenebres del jardí"

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1938, appears in Le livre ouvert, in 1. Le livre ouvert, I, in Vue donne vie, no. 4, Éd. des Cahiers d'Art, first published 1940
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This text was added to the website: 2026-05-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 30