by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)
Dans un parfum de roses blanches
Language: French (Français)
Dans un parfum de roses blanches, elle est assise et songe; et l'ombre est belle comme s'il s'y mirait un ange... L'ombre descend, le bosquet dort; Entre les feuilles et les branches, Sur le paradis bleu s'ouvre un paradis d'or; [ Sur le rivage expire un dernier flot lointain.]1 Une voix qui chantait, tout à l'heure, murmure... Un murmure s'exhale en haleine et s'éteint. Dans le silence il tombe des pétales...
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Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 27, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Dans un parfum de roses blanches", op. 95 no. 8 (1906), published 1906 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from La Chanson d'Ève, no. 8, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by François Rasse (1873 - 1955), "Dans un parfum de roses blanches ", 1931 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], from La chanson d'Eve, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "En un perfum de roses blanques", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "In een parfum van witte rozen", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "In a perfume of white roses", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Im Dufte weißer Rosen", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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