LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (21,007)
  • Text Authors (21,043)
  • 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 (1,134)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
Translation by Stefan George (1868 - 1933)

Sisina
Language: French (Français) 
Chosen for Diff
Imaginez Diane en galant équipage,
Parcourant les forêts ou battant les halliers,
Cheveux et gorge au vent, s'enivrant de tapage,
Superbe et défiant les meilleurs cavaliers !

Avez-vous vu Théroigne, amante du carnage,
Excitant à l'assaut un peuple sans souliers,
La joue et l'œil en feu, jouant son personnage,
Et montant, sabre au poing, les royaux escaliers ?

Telle la Sisina ! Mais la douce guerrière
À l'âme charitable autant que meurtrière ;
Son courage, affolé de poudre et de tambours,

Devant les suppliants sait mettre bas les armes,
Et son cœur, ravagé par la flamme, a toujours,
Pour qui s'en montre digne, un réservoir de larmes.

Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 137-138. Note: this was number 59 in the 1861 edition of Les Fleurs du mal but 60 in subsequent editions.


Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Sisina", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 59, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "Sisina", op. 24 no. 1, published 2011, first performed 2011 [ vocal duet for tenor and soprano with piano ], from Chansons de Diane, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan George (1868 - 1933) , "Sisina", appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Trübsinn und Vergeisterung, Berlin, Bondi, first published 1901 ; composed by Gerhard Frommel.
    • Go to the text.

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

  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Haasz) , "Sisina", Prague, J. Otto, first published 1919
  • ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Sisina", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2015-12-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 103

Sisina
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Chosen for Diff
Denk dir Diana tapfer ausgerüstet
Die durch die wälder eilt durchs dickicht stiebt ·
Im winde haar und hals nach kämpfen lüstet ·
Den besten jägern stolz ein beispiel giebt!

Du sahst Theroigne die am blut sich lezt
Ein unbeschuhtes volk zum sturme rufen ·
Die wange flammend und das schwert gewezt
Im sprung empor auf königliche stufen?

So ist Sisina · doch der zarte krieger
Ist nicht allein ein mörderischer sieger –
Ihr mut gehezt von rauch und trommelhieb

Wird vor dem fliehenden die waffen strecken ·
In ihrer brust · vom brand verwüstet · blieb
Für den der es verdient ein thränenbecken.

Confirmed with Stefan George, Die Blumen des Bösen, a translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, Berlin, Bondi, 1901, page 81.


Text Authorship:

  • by Stefan George (1868 - 1933), "Sisina", appears in Die Blumen des Bösen, in Trübsinn und Vergeisterung, Berlin, Bondi, first published 1901 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Sisina", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 59, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1861
    • Go to the text page.

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Gerhard Frommel (1906 - 1984), "Sisina", op. 16 no. 2 (1942), published 1942 [ voice and piano ], from Vier Lieder, no. 2, Heidelberg, Süddeutscher Musikverlag [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-04
Line count: 14
Word count: 104

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris