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Le Souvenir avec le Crépuscule Rougeoie et tremble à l'ardent horizon De l'Espérance en flamme qui recule Et s'agrandit ainsi qu'une cloison Mystérieuse où mainte floraison — Dahlia, lys, [tulipe]1 et renoncule — S'élance autour d'un treillis, et circule Parmi la maladive exhalaison De parfums lourds et chauds, dont le poison — Dahlia, lys, tulipe et renoncule — Noyant mes sens, mon âme et ma raison, Mêle dans une immense pâmoison Le Souvenir avec le Crépuscule.
Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Paysages tristes, pages 49-50. Note: The historical spelling variant "pamoison" as appears in the 1866 publication has been changed to "pâmoison".
1 omitted by K. Sorabji.Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 2, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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 Marius-François Gaillard (1900 - 1973), "Crépuscule du soir mystique ", 1921, published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 6, Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
- by Thomas Alexandrovitch de Hartmann (1885 - 1956), "Crépuscule du soir mystique ", op. 69 no. 2, published 1941 [ voice and piano ], from Paysages tristes, no. 2, Paris, Hawkes [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", op. 57 no. 2 (1995), published 2001 [ SATT chorus ], from Sieben Chansons zu vier Stimmen nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 2, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski (1880 - 1932), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], London, Chester [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", KSS 21 no. 2 (1918), published 1921, copyright © 1921, first performed 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes pour chant et piano, no. 2, London, London and Continental Music Publishing Co [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philip Wilby (b. 1949), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", copyright © 1988, first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from Ten songs of Paul Verlaine for medium voice and piano, Cycle II : Paysages Tristes, no. 2, Chester Music [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Mystical Evening Twilight", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Mystical Twilight", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Twilight of Mystic Eve", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 2
- GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Mystische Abenddämmerung", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Memory with the Twilight turns red and trembles at the fiery horizon of Hope in flames, subsiding and then surging like a mysterious barrier behind which many a blossoming flower - dahlia, lily, tulip and ranunculus - shoots up and winds itself around a trellis, amid the sickly exhalation of heavy, warm scents, whose poison - dahlia, lily, tulip and ranunculus - drowning my senses, my soul and my reason, mixes together[,] in a huge swoon[,] Memory with the Twilight.
Confirmed with an original Microsoft Word Document provided by Alistair Hinton.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Hopkins (1952 - 2007), "Mystical Twilight", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Crépuscule du soir mystique", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 2, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
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Researcher for this page: Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2018-08-03
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Word count: 76