by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Language: French (Français)
... Singulière fortune où le but se déplace, Et, n'étant nulle part, peut être n'importe où ! Où l'Homme, ... Pour trouver le repos court toujours comme un fou ! Ouvre l'œil ! Amour... gloire... bonheur ! L'Imagination qui dresse son orgie Ne trouve qu'un récif. ...
Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 2-4 of the original text.
We include the question mark in the last line of the penultimate stanza. It appears in the 1868 edition but not in the 1861 edition.
Composition:
- Set to music by Riccardo Piacentini (b. 1958), "Le voyage", 1996, stanzas 2-4, from Fugitives. Tre frammenti da Baudelaire
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, in 126. Le Voyage, no. 2, 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) , no title
- GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Der Tod, in Die Reise, no. 2
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva) , no title
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2007-06-20
Line count: 24
Word count: 190