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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Translation © by Amy Pfrimmer

Soleils couchants

(Sung text for setting by N. Sokolov)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG ENG GER

Une aube affaiblie
Verse par les champs
La mélancolie
Des soleils couchants.
La mélancolie
Berce de doux chants
Mon cœur qui s'oublie
Aux soleils couchants.
Et d'étranges rêves,
 ... 
Défilent, pareils
À des grands soleils
Couchants sur les grèves.

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-9,14-16 of the original text.

Composition:

Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Soleils couchants", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (David Wyatt) (Emily Wyatt) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Setting Suns", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 1
GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Untergehende Sonnen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 50

Setting suns

(Sung text translation for setting by N. Sokolov)

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Language: English after the French (Français)

A fading dawn 
Pours across the fields 
The melancholy 
Of the setting suns. 
With sweet songs 
The melancholy rocks 
My heart forgetting itself 
With the setting suns. 
And strange dreams, 
 ... 
Stream past, like 
Great suns 
Setting on the banks.

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-9,14-16 of the original text.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2020 by Amy Pfrimmer, (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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a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Soleils couchants", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
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This text was added to the website: 2020-02-29
Line count: 16
Word count: 51