Dainty roundels | The dew/ Flies off and rises back to the heavens

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by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926)

Translation © by Corinne Orde

Rondeaux mignons

(Sung text for setting by L. Vierne)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG ITA

  La rosée
S'envole et remonte aux cieux
Quand le soleil radieux
  L'a baisée.
Ainsi les pleurs de mes yeux
S'évaporent, quand tu veux,
  En rosée.

  Rossignol,
Ton doux chant sous la ramée
Semble la voix enrhumée
  De Guignol,
Lorsque de ma bien-aimée
Chante la voix parfumée,
  Rossignol.

  L'hirondelle
S'en revient quand le printemps
A chassé les noirs autans
  À coups d'aile.
Ainsi tes ris éclatants
Ramènent de mes vingt ans
  L'hirondelle.

  Mes amours
Sont comme un vin qui détone
Et fait craquer de l'automne
  Le velours.
Et je chante, et je festonne,
Et je ris, lorsque j'entonne
  Mes amours.

Composition:

Louis Vierne

Le poème de l'amour

Text Authorship:

by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), "Rondeaux mignons", written 1877, appears in Les Caresses, in 2. Thermidor, no. 6, Paris, Éd. M. Dreyfous, first published 1882

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CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Dainty roundels", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Francesco Campanella) , "Rondeaux graziosi", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Corinne Orde

This text was added to the website: 2007-11-20
Line count: 28
Word count: 101

Dainty roundels

(Sung text translation for setting by L. Vierne)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

The dew
Flies off and rises back to the heavens
Once the radiant sun
Has kissed it.
And thus the tears in my eyes
Evaporate, when you will,
Into dew.

Nightingale,
Your sweet song beneath the boughs
Seems like the hoarse voice
of Punch
When my beloved
Sings with her perfumed voice,
Nightingale.

The swallow
Comes back when spring
Has chased away the dark south winds
With beating wings.
Thus your pealing laughter
Brings back from my youth
The swallow.

My loves
Are like a wine that jars
And breaks up autumn's
Velvet.
And I sing and I festoon,
And I laugh when I begin to sing of
My loves.

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a text in French (Français) by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), "Rondeaux mignons", written 1877, appears in Les Caresses, in 2. Thermidor, no. 6, Paris, Éd. M. Dreyfous, first published 1882
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-20
Line count: 28
Word count: 110