by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Abandon entouré d'abandon
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: GER
Abandon entouré d'abandon, tendresse touchant aux tendresses... C'est ton intérieur qui sans cesse se caresse, dirait-on ; se caresse en soi-même, par son propre reflet éclairé. Ainsi tu inventes le thème du Narcisse exhaucé.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 5, first published 1927 [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 Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "Dirait-on", 1993, first performed 1994 [ chorus and piano ], from Les Chansons des Roses, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-19
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