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by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936)

Le jardin mouillé
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
La croisée est ouverte ; il pleut
Comme minutieusement,
À petit bruit et peu à peu,
Sur le jardin frais et dormant,

Feuille à feuille, la pluie éveille
L'arbre poudreux qu'elle verdit ;
Au mur, on dirait que la treille
S'étire d'un geste engourdi.

L'herbe frémit, le gravier tiède
Crépite et l'on croirait là-bas
Entendre sur le sable et l'herbe
Comme d'imperceptibles pas.

Le jardin chuchote et tressaille,
Furtif et confidentiel ;
L'averse semble maille à maille
Tisser la terre avec le ciel.

Il pleut, et, les yeux clos, j'écoute,
De toute sa pluie à la fois,
Le jardin mouillé qui s'égoutte
Dans l'ombre que j'ai faite en moi.

Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936), "Le jardin mouillé", written 1900, appears in Les Médailles d'Argile, in 6. À travers l'an, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1900 [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 Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Le jardin mouillé", 1906 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Le jardin mouillé", 1920?, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "Le jardin mouillé", op. 3 (Quatre poèmes) no. 3 (1903), published 1921, first performed 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "The wet garden", copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 106

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