Maison de l'esprit | Avec les pierres brutes de l'agonie

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by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Spirit's house

Language: English

Our translations: FRE

From naked stones of agony
I will build a house for me;
As a mason all alone
I will raise it, stone by stone,
And every stone where I have bled
Will show a sign of dusky red.
I have not gone the way in vain,
For I have good of all my pain;
My spirit's quiet house will be
Built of naked stones I trod
On roads where I lost sight of God.

Confirmed with Sara Teasdale, Love Songs, New York, The Macmillan Company, 1917, page 47.

Text Authorship:

by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Spirit's house", appears in Love Songs, in 2. Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow, no. 1, first published 1917 [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 John Woods Duke (1899 - 1984), "Spirit's house", 1967 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Songs Out of Sorrow, Six Songs for Mezzo-soprano, no. 1, Southern/Texas [sung text not yet checked]

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

FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Maison de l'esprit", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-13
Line count: 11
Word count: 74

Maison de l'esprit

Language: French (Français) after the English

Avec les pierres brutes de l'agonie
Je me construirai une maison ;
Toute seule comme un maçon,
Je l'érigerai pierre après pierre,
Et chaque pierre sur laquelle j'ai saigné
Montrera un signe rouge crépusculaire.
Je n'ai pas suivi ce chemin en vain,
Car toutes mes peines ont du bon ;
La maison tranquille de mon esprit
Sera faite des pierres brutes écrasées
Sur les routes où j'ai perdu Dieu de vue.

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Based on:

a text in English by Sara Teasdale (1884 - 1933), "Spirit's house", appears in Love Songs, in 2. Interlude: Songs out of Sorrow, no. 1, first published 1917
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This text was added to the website: 2015-10-13
Line count: 11
Word count: 69