En contemplant les marbres d'Elgin pour la première fois | Mon esprit est trop faible; L'idée de la mort

Attention! Some of this material is not in the public domain.

It is illegal to copy and distribute our copyright-protected material without permission. It is also illegal to reprint copyright texts or translations without the name of the author or translator.

To inquire about permissions and rates, contact Emily Ezust at licenses@email.lieder.example.net

If you wish to reprint translations, please make sure you include the names of the translators in your email. They are below each translation.

Note: You must use the copyright symbol © when you reprint copyright-protected material.

by John Keats (1795 - 1821)

Translation © by Jean-Pierre Granger

Like a sick eagle

(Sung text for setting by C. Ives)

See original

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER HUN

The spirit is too weak; mortality 
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
And each imagined pinnacle and steep
Of godlike hardship tells me I must die,
Like a sick eagle looking towards the sky.
 ...

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-5 of the original text.

Composition:

Charles Edward Ives

Text Authorship:

by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time"

See other settings of this text.

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

FRE French (Français) (Jean-Pierre Granger) , "En contemplant les marbres d'Elgin pour la première fois", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Beim ersten Sehen der Parthenon Friese", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 103

En contemplant les marbres d'Elgin pour la première fois

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Ives)

See original

Language: French (Français) after the English

Mon esprit est trop faible; L'idée de la mort
Pèse lourdement sur moi comme un sommeil qu'on repousse,
Et chaque cimes et falaise chimérique
De privations pieuses me disent qu'il me faut mourir,
Comme un aigle malade levant son regard vers le ciel.
 ...

Note: the text above is taken from lines 1-5 of the original text.

"Like a sick eagle" = "Comme un aigle malade"

Text Authorship:

Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2010 by Jean-Pierre Granger.
This author's work falls under the CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Jean-Pierre Granger. We have no current contact information for the copyright-holder.
If you wish to commission a new translation, please contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net

Based on:

a text in English by John Keats (1795 - 1821), "On seeing the Elgin Marbles for the first time"
- Go to the text page.

Go to the general single-text view

This text was added to the website: 2010-11-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 109