Étonnants voyageurs ! quelles nobles histoires Nous lisons dans vos yeux profonds comme les mers ! Montrez-nous les écrins de vos riches mémoires, Ces bijoux merveilleux, faits d'astres et d'éthers. Nous voulons voyager sans vapeur et sans voile ! Faites, pour égayer l'ennui de nos prisons, Passer sur nos esprits, tendus comme une toile, Vos souvenirs avec leurs cadres d'horizons. Dites, qu'avez-vous vu ?
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Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, in La Mort, page 308. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in La Mort, pages 346-347. Note: This is the third part in an eight-part poem, "Le Voyage". The poem is number 126 in the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 151 in subsequent editions. In both the 1861 and 1868 editions of Les Fleurs du mal, the poem is dedicated to Maxime Du Camp.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, written 1859, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, in 126. Le Voyage, no. 3, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861 [author's text checked 3 times 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 Martha Helen Schmidt (b. 1956), "Le voyage", copyright © 2011 [ high voice, piano, violin ], from Quatre chansons for high voice, piano, violin, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
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. 3
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva) , no title
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Ó! vzácní poutníci, jak divné upomínky lze čísti v očích vám, jak moře hlubokých! Nuž plné památek nám otvírejte skřínky, neb z hvězd a z étheru jsou tkané stkvosty v nich! Z nud našich vězení nás chvíli osvoboďte, vždyť cesta bez páry a plachet nejkratší! V nás duše napjata jak plátno, na ni hoďte svůj obraz, za rámec mu obzor nestačí! Nuž, co jste viděli?
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Confirmed with BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Výbor z Květů zla, translated by Jaroslav Goll, Praha : Otto, 1927, pages 65-71.
Text Authorship:
- by Jaroslav Goll (1846 - 1929), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, written 1859, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 6. La Mort, in 126. Le Voyage, no. 3, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2019-08-11
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Word count: 65