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by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)

Serre d'ennui
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ô cet ennui bleu dans le cœur !
Avec la vision meilleure,
Dans le clair de lune qui pleure,
De mes rêves bleus de langueur !

Cet ennui bleu comme la serre,
Où l'on voit closes à travers
Les vitrages profonds et verts,
Couvertes de lune et de verre ;

Les grandes végétations
Dont l'oubli nocturne s'allonge,
Immobilement comme un songe
Sur les roses des passions;

Où de l'eau très lente s'élève
En mélant la lune et le ciel
En un sanglot glauque éternel,
Monotonement comme un rêve.

Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Serre d'ennui", written 1886, appears in Serres chaudes, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier, first published 1889 [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 Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Serre d'ennui", op. 24 no. 2 (1893) [ medium voice and piano ], from Serres Chaudes, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Serre d'ennui", 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Maeterlinck, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sophie Huet) , "Hothouse boredom", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 85

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