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by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation © by Guy Laffaille
My heart, the bird of the wilderness
Language: English after the Bangla (Bengali)
My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes: They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars; My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity! Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.
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Text Authorship:
- by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 31, first published 1913 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "My heart, the bird of the wilderness", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Tagore Love Songs, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Karim Adam Al-Zand (b. 1970), "My heart, the bird of the wilderness", 2004 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from The Secret of your Heart, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Edgar Leslie Bainton (1880 - 1956), "My heart, bird of the wilderness", 1914, from Songs for a Gardener, no. 1, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Florence King Berresford , "Bird of the wilderness", 1918 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ann Marie Callaway (b. 1949), "My heart, bird of the wilderness", 2001 [ soprano, bass, chorus, and piano ], from Songs From the Gardener, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Creston, born Giuseppe Guttoveggio (1906 - 1985), "The birds of the wilderness", op. 2, published 1950 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gerard Franck (1942 - 2006), "My heart", 1962/74 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alistair Hinton (b. 1950), "My heart, the bird of the wilderness", op. 7 no. 2 (1970) [ high soprano and piano ], from Five Songs of Tagore, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wendy Hiscocks (b. 1963), "My heart, the bird", 1998 [ women's chorus a cappella ], from A Tagore Album, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edward Horsman (1873 - 1918), "The birds of the wilderness", published 1914 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Emiliano Renaud (1875 - 1932), "The bird of the wilderness", 1931, published 2009 [ contralto and piano ], from Six Romances pour Madame Sigrid Onegin, contralto superbe, no. 3, Québec, Éd. du Nouveau Théâtre Musical [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by František Balej (1873 - 1918) ; composed by Josef Bohuslav Foerster.
- Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pavel Haas.
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Jan Śliwiński (1884 - 1950) , no title, appears in Rabindranath Tagore. Der Gärtner, no. 31, first published 1916 ; composed by Ján Móry, Karol Maciej Szymanowski.
- Also set in Italian (Italiano), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist , copyright © 1936 ; composed by Franco Alfano.
- Also set in Polish (Polski), a translation by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz (1894 - 1980) ; composed by Karol Maciej Szymanowski.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Alexandr Mikhailovich Dzegelenok.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Andrea Butenschön (1866 - 1948) ; composed by Lennart Hedwall.
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- Also set in Swedish (Svenska), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Viking Dahl.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 9
Word count: 58
Mon cœur, l'oiseau du désert
Language: French (Français) after the English
Mon cœur, l'oiseau du désert, a trouvé son ciel dans tes yeux : Il sont le berceau du matin, ils sont le royaume des étoiles ; Mes chants sont perdus dans leurs profondeurs. Laisse-moi seulement monter dans ce ciel, dans son immensité solitaire ! Laisse-moi seulement me coller à ses nuages Et étendre les ailes dans l'éclat du soleil.
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Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in The Gardener, no. 31, first published 1913
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941) [text unavailable]
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-27
Line count: 9
Word count: 56