Sicilienne (Méry, set by (Giacomo Meyerbeer)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by François Joseph Pierre André Méry (1798 - 1865)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Fleurs qu'adore

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG GER

Fleurs qu'adore
La beauté,
Ciel que dore
La gaîté,
[Hors la ville,
Frais asile,
Mer tranquille]¹,
C'est l'été !

Lune pleine,
Mer qui luit,
Tiède haleine
Qui la suit.
Sous la treille,
Douce veille,
Sans pareille :
C'est la nuit !

Feu qui dore
Tout séjour
Et dévore
Chaque jour,
Deuil et fête,
Dans la tête
Du poète :
C'est l'amour !

About the headline (FAQ)

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Confirmed with Joseph Méry, Mélodies poétiques, Paris, Victor Lecou, 1853, pages 60-61.

¹ Meyerbeer:

Loin des villes
Frais asiles,
Flots tranquilles

Authorship

by François Joseph Pierre André Méry (1798 - 1865), "Trinité du poète", appears in Mélodies poétiques [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 Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791 - 1864), "Sicilienne", c1845. [voice and piano] [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Sicilienne", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Low [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2006-05-31
Line count: 24
Word count: 62

Sicilienne

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Blüten, die 
die Schönheit lieben,
Himmel, 
Heiterkeit vergoldend,
fern der Städte
kühle Zuflucht,
stille Ströme:
Sommer ist’s.

Voll der Mond
und Meeresglitzern,
milder Hauch
herüberweht.
In der Laube
süßes Wachen
ohnegleichen:
Es ist Nacht.

Feuer: Gold
wird all Verweilen -
es verschlinget
Tag um Tag.
Fest und Trauer
sind im Herzen
des Poeten.
Liebe ist’s.

A fourth stanza consisting mainly of repeated lines may exist in some editions. Here is the translation:

Blüten, die 
die Schönheit lieben,
Himmel, 
Heiterkeit vergoldend,
Voll der Mond
und Meeresglitzern,
milder Hauch
herüberweht.
Feuer: Gold
wird all Verweilen -
es verschlinget
Tag um Tag.
Liebe ist’s,
Sommer ist’s,
es ist Nacht.

Authorship

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 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.
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Based on

a text in French (Français) by François Joseph Pierre André Méry (1798 - 1865), "Trinité du poète", appears in Mélodies poétiques

This text was added to the website: 2017-06-07
Line count: 24
Word count: 55