Deux poemes d'amour

Song Cycle by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)

Word count: 164

1. Love, my heart longs day and night [sung text not yet checked]

Love, my heart longs day and night 
for the meeting with you -- for the meeting
that is like all devouring death. 

Sweep me away like a storm;
take everything I have; 
break open my sleep and plunder my dreams.
Rob me of my world. 

In that devastation, in the utter nakedness of spirit,
let us become one in beauty.
Alas for my vain desire! 
Where is this hope for union
except in thee, my God?

Authorship

by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 50, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title

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GER German (Deutsch) (Jan Śliwiński) , no title, appears in Der Gärtner, no. 50, first published 1916
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: John Versmoren

2. Peace, my heart [sung text not yet checked]

Peace, my heart, 
let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death 
but completeness.
Let love melt into memory 
and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end 
in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle 
like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, 
for a moment, 
and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you 
and hold up my lamp 
to light you on your way.

Authorship

by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 61, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on

a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]

See other settings of this text.

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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]