Reina de les gavines | Reina de les gavines, la meva òrfena

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by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Reine des mouettes

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT

Reine des mouettes, mon orpheline
Je t'ai vue rose, je m'en souviens 
Sous les brumes mousselines
De ton deuil ancien.

Rose d'aimer le baiser qui chagrine
Tu te laissais accorder à mes mains
Sous les brumes mousselines
Voiles de nos liens.
Rougis, rougis mon baiser te devine
Mouette prise aux noeuds des grands chemins.

Reine des mouettes, mon orpheline,
Tu étais rose accordée à mes mains
Rose sous les mousselines
Et je m'en souviens.

Text Authorship:

by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969) [author's text not yet checked 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), "Reine des mouettes", FP 121 no. 1 (1943) [ medium voice and piano ], from Métamorphoses, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Reina de les gavines", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 74

Reina de les gavines

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

Reina de les gavines, la meva òrfena
Et vaig veure de rosa, me’n recordo 
Sota les boires mussolines
Del teu dol antic.

Rosa d’estimar el bes que entristeix 
Et deixares acordar a les meves mans
Sota les boires mussolines
Veles dels nostres vincles.
Ruboritza’t, ruboritza’t el meu bes t’endevina
Gavina atrapada als nusos dels grans camins.

Reina de les gavines, la meva òrfena,
Eres rosa acordada a les meves mans
Rosa sota les mussolines
I jo me’n recordo.

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a text in French (Français) by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)
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This text was added to the website: 2026-05-17
Line count: 14
Word count: 78