by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
À une passante See original
Language: French (Français)
... ... -- Fugitive beauté Dont le regard m'a fait ... renaître, Ne te verrai-je plus que dans l'éternité ? ... bien loin d'ici ! trop tard ! jamais peut-être ! ... j'ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais, Ô toi que j'eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais !
First published October 15, 1860 in L'Artiste.
Composition:
- Set to music by Riccardo Piacentini (b. 1958), "À une passante", 1996, stanzas 3-4, from Fugitives. Tre frammenti da Baudelaire, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "À une passante", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 2. Tableaux parisiens, no. 93, Paris, L'Artiste, first published 1860
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Haasz) , "Ženě, která šla mimo", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1919
- ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "To a Passer-by", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
- GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , "Einer Vorübergehenden", appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, Berlin, Bondi, first published 1901
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