English translation of Roses ardentes
by Mathieu Crickboom (1871 - 1947), "Roses ardentes", op. 12 (Dix Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 9 (1915) [ voice and piano ]Note: this is a translation of one multi-text setting.
Roses ardentes
Dans l'immobile nuit,
C'est en vous que je chante
Et que je suis.
En vous, étincelles,
À la cime des bois,
Que je suis éternelle
Et que je vois.
Ô mer profonde,
C'est en toi que mon sang
Renaît vague blonde,
En flot dansant.
... Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
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Confirmed with Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d’Ève, Société du Mercure de France, 1904, 2e éd., pages 25-26.
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Comme elle chante
Dans ma voix,
L'âme longtemps murmurante
Des fontaines et des bois !
Air limpide du paradis,
Avec tes grappes de rubis,
Avec tes gerbes de lumière,
Avec tes roses et tes fruits ;
Quelle merveille en nous à cette heure !
Des paroles depuis des âges endormies
En des sons, en des fleurs.
Sur mes lèvres enfin prennent vie.
... Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 6, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
See other settings of this text.
Confirmed with Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d’Ève, Société du Mercure de France, 1904, 2e éd., pages 27-28.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
...
Et c'est en toi, force suprême,
Soleil radieux,
Que mon âme elle-même
Atteint son dieu !
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
See other settings of this text.
Confirmed with Charles Van Lerberghe, La Chanson d’Ève, Société du Mercure de France, 1904, 2e éd., pages 25-26.
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Author(s): Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)
Fiery roses
in the still night,
in you I am singing,
in you I exist.
Sparks
at the tips of the forest,
in you I am eternal,
in you I can see.
Deep ocean, in you
my blood is reborn
as a white-capped wave,
as a dancing tide.
... Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
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Translations of titles"Roses ardentes dans l'immobile nuit" = "Fiery roses in the still night"
"Roses ardentes" = "Fiery roses"
In my voice there sings
- and how it sings! -
the long-murmuring soul
of the streams and woods!
Oh limpid air of paradise,
with your clusters of rubies,
your sheaves of light,
your roses and your fruits,
what a miracle is happening in us at this moment!
Words that for eons were sleeping
are now at last coming to life
in sounds, in flowers on my lips.
... Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 6, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
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And in you, supreme force,
radiant sun,
my very soul
reaches its God!
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
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Translations of titles"Roses ardentes dans l'immobile nuit" = "Fiery roses in the still night"
"Roses ardentes" = "Fiery roses"
Translation © by Peter Low