by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Language: French (Français)
Ô Mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps ! levons l'ancre ! Le pays nous ennuie, ô Mort ! Appareillons ! Si le ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l'encre, Nos cœurs que tu connais sont remplis de rayons ! Verse-nous ton poison pour qu'il nous réconforte ! Nous voulons, tant ce feu nous brûle le cerveau, Plonger au fond du gouffre, Enfer ou Ciel, qu'importe ? Au fond de l'Inconnu pour trouver du nouveau !
Composition:
- Set to music by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864 - 1956), "La Mort", op. 48 no. 5 (1909), published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Цветы зла (Cvety zla) = Les fleurs du mal, no. 5, Moscow: Gutheil, also set in Russian (Русский)
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, in 126. Le Voyage, no. 8, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Goll) , "Cesta VIII"
- ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "Death", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "Death", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Der Tod, in Die Reise, no. 8
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Morte, mio vecchio capitano...", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva) , no title
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
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