by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949)
Oraison
Language: French (Français)
Vous savez, Seigneur, ma misère ! Voyez ce que je vous apporte ! Des fleurs mauvaises de la terre, Et du soleil sur une morte. Voyez aussi ma lassitude, La lune éteinte et l'aube noire ; Et fécondez ma solitude En l'arrosant de votre gloire. Ouvrez-moi, Seigneur, votre voie, Éclairez mon âme lasse, Car la tristesse de ma joie Semble de l'herbe sous la glace.
Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Maeterlinck (1862 - 1949), "Oraison", 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), "Oraison", op. 24 no. 5 (1895) [ high voice and piano ], from Serres Chaudes, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Thomas Oboe Lee (b. 1945), "Oraison" [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Maeterlinck, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto Nepomuceno (1864 - 1920), "Oraison", op. 11 no. 2 (1894) [ voice and piano ], Rio de Janeiro: Vieira Machado [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Sophie Huet) , "Prayer", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , "Bønn", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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