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by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)

Harmonie du soir
 (Sung text for setting by B. Rands)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG SPA
Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir ;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir,
— Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige ! —

Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir ;
Le violon frémit comme un cœur qu'on afflige ;
— Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige ! —
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.

Le violon frémit comme un cœur qu'on afflige,
Un cœur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir !
— Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir ;
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.

Un cœur tendre qui hait le néant vaste et noir
Du passé lumineux recueille tout vestige ;
— Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige ;
Ton souvenir en moi luit comme un ostensoir !

Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 101-102. Note: this was number 43 in the 1857 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but 47 or 48 in subsequent editions.


Composition:

    Set to music by Bernard Rands (b. 1934), "Harmonie du soir", from Canti del sole, no. 12

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Harmonie du soir", written 1857, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 47, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857

See other settings of this text.

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Harmonie večera"
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Evening harmony", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Evening Harmony", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Árpád Tóth) , "Esti harmónia", written 1920
  • POL Polish (Polski) (Bronisława Ostrowska) , "Harmonia wieczoru", Kraków, first published 1911
  • ROM Romanian (Română) (Alexandru I. Philippide) , "Armonie în amurg"
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Victor Torres) , "Armonía del atadecer", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 138

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