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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Beau papillon près du sol
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Beau papillon près du sol 
[à l’attentive nature]1 
montrant les enluminures 
de son livre de vol. 

Un autre se ferme au bord 
de la fleur qu’on respire : — 
ce n’est pas le moment de lire. 
Et tant d’autres encor, 

de menus bleus, s’éparpillent, 
flottants et voletants, 
comme de bleues brindilles 
d’une lettre d’amour au vent, 

d’une lettre déchirée 
qu’on était en train de faire 
pendant que la destinataire 
hésitait à l’entrée. 

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   D. Milhaud 

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1 omitted by Milhaud.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 36 [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Beau papillon, près du sol", op. 206 no. 5, published 1939 [ chorus ], from Quatrains Valaisans, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Bertram Kottmann , Ivo Zandhuis

This text was added to the website: 2004-12-11
Line count: 16
Word count: 72

Schöner Falter, nah der Erde
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Schöner Falter, nah der Erde,
(der achtsamen Natur)
zeigt er die Miniaturen
aus seinem Buch des Fliegens.

Ein anderer schließt die Flügel am Rand
der Blüte, durchzuatmen - :
Dies ist nicht der Augenblick, zu lesen.
Und viele weit’re noch,

von zarter Bläue, verstreuen 
segelnd, flatternd sich
wie blaue Zweiglein
eines Liebesbriefs im Wind,

eines Briefs, den man
dabei war, zu zerreißen,
indessen die Empfängerin
am Eingang zauderte. 

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Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2016 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.

    Bertram Kottmann.  Contact: BKottmann (AT) t-online.de

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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 2. Les Quatrains Valaisans, no. 36
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This text was added to the website: 2016-05-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 66

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