LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,447)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

La fontaine sainte
 (Sung text for setting by D. Milhaud)
 Matches base text
Language: French (Français) 
C’est un calme bassin et tellement limpide
Que même de tout près il semble qu’il soit vide.
L’œil atteint sans arrêt le lit de sable blond
Que par endroits soulève en légers tourbillons
Plus doux que de la soie, et sans la moindre bulle,
La brise souterraine et qui dans l’eau circule.

Composition:

    Set to music by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "La fontaine sainte", op. 352 no. 2 (1956), published 1956 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Fontaines et sources, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Pathé Marconi

Text Authorship:

  • by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Fontaine sainte", written 1926, appears in Ma France poétique, in 2. Eau, in 1. Sources et fontaines, no. 5

Go to the general single-text view


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-02-17
Line count: 6
Word count: 52

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris