Diane, Séléné | Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal

CONTENTS

Home | Introduction
Composers (20,205)
Text Authors (19,690)
Go to a Random Text
What’s New
A Small Tour
FAQ & Links
Donors

DONATE

UTILITIES

Search Everything
Search by Surname
Search by Title or First Line
Search by Year
Search by Collection

CREDITS

Emily Ezust
Contributors (1,115)
Contact Information
Bibliography
Copyright Statement
Privacy Policy

by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (1886 - 1914)

Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER

Diane, Séléné, lune de beau métal,
Qui reflète vers nous, par ta face déserte,
Dans l'immortel ennui du calme sidéral,
Le regret d'un soleil dont nous pleurons la perte.

Ô lune, je t'en veux de ta limpidité
Injurieuse au trouble vain des pauvres âmes,
Et mon cœur, toujours las et toujours agité,
Aspire vers la paix de ta nocturne flamme.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Jean de La Ville de Mirmont, L’Horizon chimérique, Recueil posthume, Éd. Société Littéraire de France, 1920.

Text Authorship:

by Jean de La Ville de Mirmont (1886 - 1914), no title, written 1911-12, appears in L'horizon chimérique, no. 11, Éd. Société Littéraire de France, first published 1920 [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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Diane, Séléné", op. 118 no. 3 (1921), published 1922 [ baritone and piano ], from L'horizon chimérique, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie [sung text checked 1 time]

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

GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , "Diana, Selene", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Didier Pelat

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 60