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by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892)
Translation © by Pierre Mathé
There she weaves by night and day
Language: English
Our translations: FRE
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
And moving thro' a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
There she sees the highway near
Winding down to Camelot:
There the river eddy whirls,
And there the surly village-churls,
And the red cloaks of market girls,
Pass onward from Shalott.
Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,
An abbot on an ambling pad,
Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,
Or long-hair'd page in crimson clad,
Goes by to tower'd Camelot;
And sometimes thro' the mirror blue
The knights come riding two and two:
She hath no loyal knight and true,
The Lady of Shalott.
But in her web she still delights
To weave the mirror's magic sights,
For often thro' the silent nights
A funeral, with plumes and lights,
And music, went to Camelot:
Or when the moon was overhead,
Came two young lovers lately wed;
'I am half sick of shadows,' said
The Lady of Shalott.
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Confirmed with Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir. The Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919, [c1901]; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/101/700.html.
Text Authorship:
- by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Lady of Shalott, no. 2 [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 Wilfred Ellington Bendall (1850 - 1920), "There she weaves by night and day ", published 1884 [ soprano, SSA chorus, orchestra ], from cantata The Lady of Shalott, no. 2, London, Novello [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Reinhold Busch (1862 - 1943), "There she weaves by night and day ", published 1894 [ soprano, mixed chorus, orchestra ], from cantata The Lady of Shalott, no. 2, Boston, White-Smith [sung text not yet checked]
- by Christopher Montague Edmunds (1899 - 1990), "There she weaves by night and day ", published 1926 [ SA chorus, orchestra ], from cantata The Lady of Shalott, no. 2, London, Stainer & Bell [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Jacobson (1896 - 1976), "There she weaves by night and day ", published 1942 [ tenor, SATB chorus, orchestra ], from cantata The Lady of Shalott, no. 2, London, Curwen [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "There she weaves by night and day", op. 36 no. 2 (1944) [ voice and piano ], from The Lady of Shalott, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate (1911 - 1987), "There she weaves by night and day ", 1956 [ tenor, viola, percussion, 2 pianos, cello ], from cantata The Lady of Shalott, no. 2, London, Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889 - 1960), "The Lady of Shalott", published 1929 [ mezzo-soprano, SA chorus, piano, optional strings ], London, Curwen
- by Cyril Bradley Rootham (1875 - 1938), "The Lady of Shalott", 1909-10 [ mezzo-soprano, SATB chorus, orchestra ]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2015-02-19
Line count: 36
Word count: 208
Elle tisse ici nuit et jour
Language: French (Français) after the English
Elle tisse ici nuit et jour
Une toile magique au couleurs gaies.
Elle a entendu une rumeur dire
Qu'une malédiction tomberait sur elle si elle restait là
À regarder vers le bas, vers Camelot.
Elle ne sait de quelle malédiction il peut s'agir,
Et donc elle tisse constamment,
Et elle n'a guère d'autres soucis,
La Dame de Shallot.
Et passant devant le miroir
Qui est là devant elle toute l'année,
Les ombres du monde apparaissent.
Elle y voit la grand route d'à côté
Serpentant en bas, vers Camelot :
Elle y voit tourbillonner les remous de la rivière,
Et les rustres bourrus du village,
Et les manteaux rouges des filles du marché
Passer, leur chemin devant Shallott.
Parfois une joyeuse troupe de demoiselles,
Un abbé sur un cheval allant l'amble,
Parfois un jeune berger bouclé,
Ou un page aux cheveux longs vêtu d'écarlate
Passent vers les tours de Camelot ;
Et parfois, à travers le bleu du miroir
Les chevaliers viennent, chevauchant deux par deux :
Elle n' a pas de loyal et fidèle chevalier,
La Dame de Shallott.
Mais sur sa toile, elle a pourtant grand plaisir
À tisser les visions magiques du miroir,
Car souvent au cours des nuits silencieuses
Un cortège funéraire, avec plumes et lumières,
Et musique allait vers Camelot :
Ou lorsque la lune était haut dans le ciel,
Venaient deux jeunes amants récemment mariés ;
« Ces ombres me rendent à moitié malade » disait
La Dame de Shallott.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in The Lady of Shalott, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2015-03-23
Line count: 36
Word count: 240