Enfant de la mélancolie | Où qu'il aille, le ciel est couvert de nuées nocturnes

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by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Svårmodets son

Language: Swedish (Svenska)

Our translations: FRE

Vart han går, av nattliga moln betäckes
himlen, fågeln tystnar och ängen gulnar,
källans sorl förstummas, och kalken sluter
doftande blomman.

Confirmed with Viktor Rydberg, Dikter, Atlantis, Stockholm, 1996, page 45.

Note: Pergament's score has a typo on line 3, word 3: "förstumnas"

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Svårmodets son", appears in Dikter, first published 1914 [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 Algot Haquinius (1886 - 1966), "Svårmodets son", 1911 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Moses Pergament (1893 - 1977), "Svårmodets son", 1917-1919 [ voice and piano ], from Evighetsträngtan : Tre sånger, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Enfant de la mélancolie", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Enfant de la mélancolie

Language: French (Français) after the Swedish (Svenska)

Où qu'il aille, le ciel est couvert de nuées nocturnes,
l'oiseau fait silence et la prairie jaunit,
le murmure des sources se tait, et le calice
de la fleur odorante se ferme.

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Based on:

a text in Swedish (Svenska) by Viktor Rydberg (1828 - 1895), "Svårmodets son", appears in Dikter, first published 1914
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This text was added to the website: 2015-02-05
Line count: 4
Word count: 32