J'ai vu un Œil Mourant

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by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

Translation © by Guy Laffaille

I've seen a dying eye

Language: English

Our translations: FRE GER ITA

I've seen a dying eye
Run round and round a room
In search of something, as it seemed,
Then cloudier become;
And then, obscure with fog,
And then be soldered down,
Without disclosing what it be,
’T were blessed to have seen.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Coates

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Confirmed with Dickinson, Emily, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston: Little, Brown, 1924; Bartleby.com, 2000. www.bartleby.com/113/4015.html

Text Authorship:

by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title [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 Gloria Coates (b. 1938), "I've seen a dying eye", from 15 Songs on Poems by Emily Dickinson, no. 13. [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , 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

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Word count: 42

J'ai vu un Œil Mourant

Language: French (Français) after the English

J'ai vu un Œil Mourant
Tourner tout autour de la Chambre --
À la recherche de Quelque chose -- comme il semblait --
Puis devenir plus trouble --
Et puis -- s'obscurcir avec une Brume --
Et puis -- être soudé
Sans divulguer ce qui aurait
Été béni d'être vu --

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Translation of title "I've seen a dying eye" = "J'ai vu un Œil Mourant"

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a text in English by Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2016-11-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 43