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by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Hymne à Astarté

(Sung text for setting by C. Koechlin)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Mère inépuisable, incorruptible, créatrice, 
née la première, engendrée par toi-même, 
conçue de toi-même, issue de toi seule 
et qui te réjouis en toi, Astarté !

Ô perpétuellement fécondée, 
ô vierge et nourrice de tout, chaste et désireuse,
pure et jouissante, ineffable, nocturne, douce, 
respiratrice du feu, écume de la mer !

Toi qui accordes en secret la grâce, 
toi qui unis, toi qui aimes, toi qui saisis 
d'un furieux désir les races multipliées 
des bêtes sauvages, et joins les sexes dans les forêts.

Ô Astarté irrésistible, soit que tu imposes la douleur,
soit que tu delivres dans la joie, entends-moi,
prends-moi, arrache de mon corps bienheureux 
les libations sanglantes !

Composition:

Charles Koechlin

Chansons de Bilitis

Text Authorship:

by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "Hymne à Astarté", written 1894, appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Épigrammes dans l'Île de Chypre, no. 99, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897

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ENG English (Sarah Daughtrey) , "Hymn to Astarte", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Hymnus auf Astarte", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Sarah Daughtrey

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 107

Hymnus auf Astarte

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Koechlin)

See original

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Ewig seiende, allwährende Mutter, Schöpferin,
Erstgeborene, Selbsterschaffene,
Selbstgezeugte, aus sich allein Hervorgegangene
und sich an sich selbst Erfreuende, Astarte!

Ewig Fruchtbare,
Jungfrau und Nährmutter aller, keusch und gierig,
rein und wollüstig, Unaussprechliche, Nächtliche, Sanftmütige,
des Feuers Atem, Schaum des Meeres!

Du, die im Stillen Gunst erweist,
die eint, die liebt und die in grimmiger Begier
die Vielzahl wilder Tiere greift
und die Geschlechter in den Wäldern eint.

Berückende Astarte, sei es, dass du Schmerz aufbürdest,
sei es, dass du Lust bereitest, höre mich,
nimm mich und entringe meinem glückseligen Leib
die Opfer des Blutes.

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Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2013 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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a text in French (Français) by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "Hymne à Astarté", written 1894, appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Épigrammes dans l'Île de Chypre, no. 99, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897
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This text was added to the website: 2013-03-28
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Word count: 92