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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Tristesse d'été
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Le soleil, sur le sable, ô lutteuse endormie, 
En l'or de tes cheveux chauffe un bain langoureux 
Et, consumant l'encens sur ta joue ennemie, 
Il mêle avec les pleurs un breuvage amoureux. 

Dans ce blanc Flamboiement l'immuable accalmie 
T'a fait dire, attristée, ô mes baisers peureux, 
«Nous ne serons jamais une seule momie
Sous l'antique désert et les palmiers heureux!»

Mais ta chevelure est une rivière tiède, 
Où noyer sans frissons l'âme qui nous obsède 
Et trouver ce Néant que tu ne connais pas! 

Je goûterai le fard pleuré par tes paupières, 
Pour voir s'il sait donner au coeur que tu frappas 
L'insensibilité de l'azur et des pierres.

First published in Le Parnasse contemporain, June 30, 1866.


Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Tristesse d'été", written 1864, first published 1866 [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 Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Tristesse d’Été", op. 317 no. 2 (2021) [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder nach Stéphane Mallarmé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henri-Pierre Poupard (1901 - 1989), as Henri Sauguet, "Tristesse d'été", 1938, published 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies sur des poèms Symbolistes, no. 2, Éd. Amphion [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), as Jean Hubert, "Tristesse d'Été", <<1904 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les Saisons et les Heures, no. 14, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Summer's sadness", copyright © 2021, (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: 14
Word count: 108

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