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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Soupir
 (Sung text for setting by F. Van Nimwegen)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG FIN
Mon âme vers ton front où rêve, ô calme sœur,
Un automne jonché de taches de rousseur,
Et vers le ciel errant de ton œil angélique
Monte, comme dans un jardin mélancolique,
Fidèle, un blanc jet d'eau soupire vers l'Azur !
-- Vers l'azur attendri d'octobre pâle et pur
Qui mire aux grands bassins sa langueur infinie
Et laisse, sur l'eau morte où la fauve agonie
Des feuilles erre au vent et creuse un froid sillon,
Se trainer le soleil jaune d'un long rayon.

First published in Le Parnasse contemporain, May 12, 1866.


Composition:

    Set to music by Frank Van Nimwegen (b. 1961), "Soupir", 1995 [ SATB chorus ], from Six images intemporelles, no. 5

Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Soupir", written 1864

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Sospir", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Nicolas Gounin) , "Sigh", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Huokaus", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Nicolas Gounin [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 82

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