by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)
Ce soir, à travers le bonheur
Language: French (Français)
Ce soir, à travers le bonheur, Qui donc soupire, qu'est-ce qui pleure? Qu'est-ce qui vient palpiter sur mon coeur, Comme un oiseu blessé? [ Est-ce une plainte de la terre,]1 Est-ce une voix future, Une voix du passé? J'écoute, jusqu'à la souffrance, Ce son dans le silence. Île d'oubli, ô Paradis! Quel cri déchire, dans la nuit, Ta voix qui me berce? Quel cri traverse Ta ceinture de fleurs, Et ton beau voile d'allégresse?
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Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 4. Crépuscule, no. 2, 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), "Crépuscule", op. 95 no. 9 (1906), published 1906 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from La chanson d'Eve, no. 9, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Paul Lacombe (1837 - 1927), "Ce soir, à travers le bonheur, qui donc soupire ?", op. 132 no. 2 (1907), published [1909] [ high voice and piano ], from La chanson d'Ève, no. 2, Éd. F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Het vallen van de avond", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Twilight", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Abenddämmer", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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