Où vont mes livres | Tous les mots que je rassemble

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by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

All the words that I gather

Language: English

Our translations: FRE IRI

All the words that I [gather]¹ 
And all the words that I write
Must spread out their wings untiring
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darkened or starry bright.

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Confirmed with Irish Fairy Tales, edited with an introduction by W. B. Yeats, London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1892, in the epigraph.

¹ or "utter" in some versions of the poem.

Text Authorship:

by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Where my books go", appears in Irish Fairy Tales, first published 1892 [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 Louis Campbell-Tipton (1877 - 1921), "All the words that I gather", <<1921. [ sung text not verified ]
by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "All the words that I utter", subtitle: "Song in the night", 1925. [voice and piano] [ sung text not verified ]
by Ernest Whyte (1858 - 1922), "The destiny of my words", op. 29 no. 3. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , title 1: "Où vont mes livres", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 52

Où vont mes livres

Language: French (Français) after the English

Tous les mots que je [rassemble]¹
Et tous les mots que j'écris
Doivent inlassablement déployer leurs ailes
Et ne jamais cesser leur vol,
Jusqu'à ce qu'ils arrivent à ton triste, triste cœur,
Et qu'ils chantent pour toi dans la nuit,
Au-delà des eaux agitées,
Assombries par les tempêtes ou éclairées par les étoiles.

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¹ ou "prononce" dans certaines versions

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Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2016 by Pierre Mathé, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in English by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Where my books go", appears in Irish Fairy Tales, first published 1892
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This text was added to the website: 2016-01-04
Line count: 8
Word count: 54