Le Souvenir avec le Crépuscule
Rougeoie et tremble à l'ardent horizon
De l'Espérance en flamme qui recule
Et s'agrandit ainsi qu'une cloison
Mystérieuse où mainte floraison
— Dahlia, lys, [tulipe]1 et renoncule —
S'élance autour d'un treillis, et circule
Parmi la maladive exhalaison
De parfums lourds et chauds, dont le poison
— Dahlia, lys, tulipe et renoncule —
Noyant mes sens, mon âme et ma raison,
Mêle dans une immense pâmoison
Le Souvenir avec le Crépuscule.

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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Paysages tristes, pages 49-50. Note: The historical spelling variant "pamoison" as appears in the 1866 publication has been changed to "pâmoison".

¹ omitted by K. Sorabji.

Text Authorship:

• by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 2, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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 Marius-François Gaillard (1900 - 1973), "Crépuscule du soir mystique ", 1921, published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 6, Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
• by Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann (1885 - 1956), "Crépuscule du soir mystique ", op. 69 no. 2, published 1941 [ voice and piano ], from Paysages tristes, no. 2, Paris, Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
• by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", op. 57 no. 2 (1995), published 2001 [ SATT chorus ], from Sieben Chansons zu vier Stimmen nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 2, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
• by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], London, Chester [sung text not yet checked]
• by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", KSS 21 no. 2 (1918), published 1921, copyright © 1921, first performed 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes pour chant et piano, no. 2, London, London and Continental Music Publishing Co [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Philip Wilby (b. 1949), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", copyright © 1988, first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from Ten songs of Paul Verlaine for medium voice and piano, Cycle II : Paysages Tristes, no. 2, Chester Music [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Mystical Evening Twilight", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Mystical Twilight", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Twilight of Mystic Eve", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 2
• GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Mystische Abenddämmerung", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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