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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Le vent dans les rochers sifflait et...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Le vent dans les rochers sifflait et mugissait ;
Le monde en frissonnant se reprenait à vivre,
Et la mer immortelle au soleil bondissait
Comme un jeune cheval que le grand air enivre.

Secouant sa crinière épaisse vers les cieux,
Elle semblait hennir et se cabrer de joie ;
Et dans la liberté roulaient les flots joyeux
Sous les baisers pourprés du matin qui flamboie.

Et mon cœur s'est levé par ce matin d'été ;
Car une belle enfant était sur le rivage,
Dardant sur moi ses yeux inondés de clarté,
Et sur sa bouche errait un sourire sauvage.

Toi que transfiguraient la jeunesse et l'amour,
Tu m'apparus alors comme l'àme des choses ;
Mon cœur vola vers toi, tu le pris sans retour,
Et du ciel entr'ouvert pleuvaient sur nous des roses.

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•   E. Chausson 

E. Chausson sets stanzas 3-4

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Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 4, first published 1876 [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 Albert Cahen d’Anvers (1846 - 1903), "Apparition", published [1894] [ mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano ], from Marines, no. 7, Édition Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La fleur des eaux", op. 19 no. 1 (1882), published 1917, first performed 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 1, Rouart & Lerolle
    • View the full text. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 132

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