Les Roses | Quan el cel de safir és de foc

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by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)

Translation © by Núria Colomer

Les Roses

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG

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Lorsque le ciel de saphir est [en]¹ feu,
Lorsque l'Eté, de son haleine touche
La folle Nymphe amoureuse, et par jeu
Met un charbon rougissant sur sa bouche;
Quand sa chaleur, dédaigneuse et farouche,
Fait tressaillir le myrte et le cyprès,
On sent brûler sous ses magiques traits
Les fronts blémis, et les lèvres [décloses]²,
Et le riant feuillage des forêts,
Et vous aussi, coeurs enflammés des Roses.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• C. Debussy

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¹ Debussy: "de"
² Debussy: "micloses"

Text Authorship:

by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Les Roses", appears in Les Cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 15, first published 1842 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Les Roses", L. 28/(13) (1881) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , "Les Roses", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Roses", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 71

Les Roses

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

Chosen for Diff

Quan el cel de safir és de foc,
quan l’estiu, del seu hàlit acarona
la folla nimfa enamorada i, faceciós
posa un carbó envermellit a sa boca;
quan sa calda, desdenyosa i rebel,
fa estremir la murtra i el xiprer,
hom sent abrusar sota sos magnífics trets
els fronts pàl·lids, i els llavis [desclosos]
i l’alegre brostam del bosc,
i vosaltres també, cors encesos de les Roses.

Versió cantable per a la cançó de Debussy.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Les Roses", appears in Les Cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 15, first published 1842
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This text was added to the website: 2020-01-29
Line count: 10
Word count: 67