by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560)
Un vanneur de blés au vent Matches original text
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
À vous, trouppe légère,
Qui d'aile passagère
Par le monde volez,
Et, d'un sifflant murmure
L'ombrageuse verdure
Doulcement esbranlez,
J'offre ces violettes,
Ces lis, et ces fleurettes,
Et ces roses icy,
Ces vermeillettes roses,
Tout freschement écloses,
Et ces oeilletz aussi.
De vostre doulce halaine
Éventez ceste plaine,
Éventez ce séjour:
Ce pendant que j'ahanne
À mon blé, que je vanne
À la chaleur du jour.
Composition:
- Set to music by Gustave Léon Huberti (1843 - 1910), "Un vanneur de blés au vent", subtitle: "Villanelle" [ high voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 5, Bruxelles: Schott Frères, also set in Dutch (Nederlands), also set in German (Deutsch)
Text Authorship:
- by Joachim du Bellay (1525 - c1560), "D'un vanneur de bled aux vents", written c1549, appears in Divers Jeux Rustiques, no. 3
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (David Jonathan Justman) , "From a winnower of wheat to the winds", copyright ©, (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.
Line count: 18
Word count: 67