by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Comment encore reconnaître Matches original text
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Comment encore reconnaître ce que fut la douce vie ? En contemplant peut-être dans ma paume l'imagerie de ces lignes et de ces rides que l'on entretient en fermant sur le vide cette main de rien.
Composition:
- Set to music by Natalie Goossens (b. 1976), "Comment encore reconnaître", 2020 [ mixed chorus ], from Cinq chansons d’espoir, no. 4, Euprint
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/1925, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 32
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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