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[Après une journée de vent, dans]1 une paix infinie, le soir se réconcilie comme un docile amant. Tout devient calme, clarté.... Mais à l'horizon s'étage, éclairé et doré, un beau bas-relief de nuages.
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View text without footnotesConfirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Page 120.
1 Schürch: "Dans"; further changes may exist not shown aboveText Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 21 [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 Maximilian Beckschäfer (b. 1952), "Après une journée de vent" [ soprano and mixed chorus ], from Les saisons de mon coeur, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Philippe Dartois , "Après une journée de vent", 2015 [ voice and piano ], from Les Quatrains valaisans, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gregory Mertl , "Après une journée de vent", 1998, copyright © 2006, first performed 1999 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet and piano ], from Quatre aperçus, no. 3, New York, NY : Society of Composers, Inc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Après une journée de vent", op. 63 no. 4 (1972), from Six quatrains valaisans, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Après une journée de vent", 1950, copyright © 1980, first performed 1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Poèmes de R.M. Rilke, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cyrill Schürch (b. 1974), "Après une journée", copyright © 2015 [ mixed chorus ], from Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 2, Stuttgart : Carus Verlag [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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[After a day of wind, in]1 infinite peace, the evening is reconciled like a docile lover. All becomes calm and clear.... But at the horizon appears, brightly-lit and golden, a lovely bas-relief of terraced clouds.
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View text without footnotesTranslations of titles:
"Après une journée" = "After a day"
"Après une journée de vent" = "After a Day of Wind"
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 21
This text was added to the website: 2025-07-07
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Word count: 36