by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
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Un grand sommeil noir
Language: French (Français)
Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien... Ô la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu'une main balance Au creux d'un caveau : Silence, silence !
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Originally titled Berceuse (Cellulairement, no. 8).
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1873, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 5, first published 1880
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Egy álom", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 45
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Language: Russian (Русский) after the French (Français)
На жизнь мою ночь спустилась незримо, надежды все прочь, желания мимо! Забыты давно страданья и ласка, не всели равно, о грустная сказка. Ведь я колыбель как мерно качанье. В чём жизнь? не воснель. Молчанье... молчанье.
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Note on TransliterationsComposition:
- Set to music by Vassily Vasilyevich Nechayev (1895 - 1956), alternate title: "На жизнь мою ночь спустилась незримо", op. 1 no. 2 (1917), published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Девять юношеских песен для голоса с фортепиано (Devjat' junosheskikh pesen dlja golosa s fortepiano) = Dix pièces pour les jeunes, no. 2, Moscow
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- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1873, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 5, first published 1880
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Word count: 35