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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)
Translation © by Tim Palmer
Your hands lie open in the long fresh...
Language: English
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass, - The finger-points look through like rosy blooms: Your eyes smile peace. The pasture gleams and glooms 'Neath billowing [clouds]1 that scatter and amass. All round our nest, far as the eye can pass, Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge Where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge. 'Tis visible silence, still as the hour glass. Deep in the sunsearched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: - So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Vaughan Williams: "skies"
Authorship
- by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Silent noon", appears in Ballads and Sonnets, first published 1881 [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 George Frederick Boyle (1886 - 1948), "Your hands lie open", published 1939. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Henry Clough-Leighter (1874 - 1956), "Silent noon", published 1910 [high voice, piano, and string quartet], from The Day of Beauty [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Edward Toner Cone (b. 1917), "Silent noon", published 1964 [soprano and piano], in the collection New Vistas of Song [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Frederick Shepherd Converse (1871 - 1940), "Silent noon", published <<1940. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by John Henry Diercks (b. 1927), "Pastorale", 1957. [SSA chorus and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ernest Bristow Farrar (1885 - 1918), "Silent noon", op. 10 no. 2, published 1911 [voice and piano], from Vagabond Songs, no. 2. [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "Silent noon", 1983 [medium voice and piano (or flute, oboe, vibraphone, violin, and violoncello)], from Wing'd Hour, no. 2, New York, Peters [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Robert William Manton (1894 - 1967), "The wing'd hour", 1954. [medium voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Charles Wilfred Orr (1893 - 1976), "Silent noon", published 1922. [baritone and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Masters van Someren-Godfery (d. 1947), "Silent noon", published 1925. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958), "Silent noon", 1903, published 1904 [voice and piano], from The House of Life, no. 2. [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Elinor Remick Warren (1900 - 1991), "Silent noon", published 1928. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Sílvia Pujalte Piñán) , "Migdia silenciós", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Tim Palmer) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 113
Tes mains ouvertes reposent sur l’herbe...
Language: French (Français) after the English
Tes mains ouvertes reposent sur l’herbe longe et fraîche, les pointes des doigts regardent à travers comme des floraisons : tes yeux sourient la paix. Le pâturage luit et assombrit sous les ciels tournoyants qui dispersent et s’accumulent. Tout autour de notre nid, jusqu’où l’œuil peut voir, sont des champs de boutons d’or à bords d’argent, où le cerfeuil des bois contourne la haie d’aubépine. C’est le silence visible, immobile comme le sablier. Au cœur des pousses recherchées par le soleil la libellule est suspendu comme un fil bleu relâché du ciel ; ainsi cette heure ailée nous est lâchée d’en haut. Oh nous serrons à nos cœurs, pour une dot sans mort, cette heure de compagnie intime inexprimable quand le silence double était la chanson d’amour.
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Translation of title "Silent noon" = "Midi silencieux"Authorship
- Translation from English to French (Français) copyright © 2017 by Tim Palmer, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882), "Silent noon", appears in Ballads and Sonnets, first published 1881
This text was added to the website: 2017-07-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 127