Sentimental landscape | The winter sky, so sweet, so sad, so slumbrous

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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Translation © by John Glenn Paton

Le ciel d'hiver

(Sung text for setting by C. Widor)

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Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER HUN ITA SPA

Le ciel d'hiver, si doux, si triste, si dormant,
Où le soleil errait parmi les vapeurs blanches,
Était pareil au doux, au profond sentiment
Qui nous rendait heureux mélancoliquement
Par cette après-midi de rêves sous les branches...

Branches mortes qu'aucun souffle ne remuait,
Branches noires portant quelque feuille fanée,
-- Ah! que mon âme s'est à ton âme donnée
Plus tendrement encor dans ce grand bois muet,
Et dans cette langueur de la mort de l'année !

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Composition:

Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor

Chansons de Mer

Text Authorship:

by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Paysage sentimental", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882

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CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , "Sentimental landscape", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Seelengefilde", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Dániel Csűry) , "Érzelmes tájkép", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Paesaggio sentimentale", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Mónica Luz Alvarez Jiménez) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Sentimental landscape

(Sung text translation for setting by C. Widor)

See original

Language: English after the French (Français)

The winter sky, so sweet, so sad, so slumbrous,
where the sun wandered among pale mists,
was like the sweet, deep feeling
that made us happy in a melancholy way
on that afternoon of kisses under the branches,

dead branches not stirred by any breeze,
black branches with a few withered leaves.
Ah, how your lips were given to my lips
more tenderly still in this great, mute woods
and in this languor of the year's death,

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Note: the text above is taken from stanzas 1-2 of the original text.

Note: this is a translation of Debussy's version.

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a text in French (Français) by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Paysage sentimental", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882
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