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by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894)

Le Temps, l'Étendue et le Nombre
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Le Temps, l'Étendue et le Nombre
Sont tombés du noir firmament
Dans la mer immobile et sombre.

Suaire de silence et d'ombre,
La nuit efface [absolument]1
Le Temps, l'Étendue et le Nombre.

Tel qu'un lourd et muet décombre,
L'Esprit plonge au vide dormant,
Dans la mer immobile et sombre.

En lui-même, avec lui, tout sombre,
Souvenir, rêve, sentiment,
Le Temps, l'Étendue et le Nombre,
Dans la mer immobile et sombre.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Koechlin 

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Confirmed with Leconte de Lisle, Poèmes tragiques, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1884, Pages 61-62.

1 Koechlin: "entièrement"

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818 - 1894), "Villanelle", appears in Poèmes tragiques, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1884 [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 Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Villanelle", op. 21 no. 1 (1900-1) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Le temps, l'étendue et le nombre", published 1901 [ high voice and piano ], from Poèmes du silence - vibrations musicales - 1ère série, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marguerite Roesgen-Champion (1894 - 1976), "Villanelle", published 1945 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes pour chant et piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. A la Flûte de Pan [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


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 13
Word count: 71

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