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. ...
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
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Word count: 190