Ô portes | portes, où mon cœur a si souvent battu

Translation by Léon Morel (1850 - 1917)

The Danube to the Severn gave

Language: English

The Danube to the Severn gave 
The darken'd heart that beat no more; 
They laid him by the pleasant shore, 
And in the hearing of the wave. 
There twice a day the Severn fills; 
That salt sea-water passes by, 
And hushes half the babbling Wye, 
And makes a silence in the hills. 

The Wye is hush'd nor moved along, 
And hush'd my deepest grief of all, 
When fill'd with tears that cannot fall, 
I brim with sorrow drowning song. 

The tide flows down, the wave again 
Is vocal in its wooded walls; 
My deeper anguish also falls, 
And I can speak a little then.

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Text Authorship:

by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in In Memoriam A. H. H. obiit MDCCCXXXIII, no. 19 [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 Humphrey Procter-Gregg (1895 - 1980), "The Danube to the Severn goes" [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in French (Français), a translation by Léon Morel (1850 - 1917) , no title ; composed by Max d'Ollone.
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portes, où mon cœur a si souvent battu

Language: French (Français) after the English

0 portes, où mon cœur a si souvent battu
    Si vite, sans ces pleurs que la mémoire éveille
    Je vous vois de nouveau. La ville encor sommeille 
Sur la rue un parfum de prés est répandu

J'entends un gazouillis léger d'oiseaux je vois, 
    Entre les deux longs murs qu'aucun feu ne colore,
    Le pâle sentier bleu de la première aurore,
Et pense aux premiers ans, et toujours pense à toi.

Je te bénis j'entends des mots doux et divins 
    Sur ta lèvre en ton œil l'amitié brille heureuse, 
    Et presque sans, souffrir d'angoisse douloureuse, 
Je rêve que ma main est pressée en tes mains.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Léon Morel, In memoriam / poèmes de Lord Alfred Tennyson ; traduits en vers français, Librairie Hachette & Cie, p. 105

Text Authorship:

by Léon Morel (1850 - 1917), no title [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by Alfred Tennyson, Lord (1809 - 1892), no title, appears in In Memoriam A. H. H. obiit MDCCCXXXIII, no. 19
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Max d'Ollone (1875 - 1959), "Ô portes", published 1910 [ medium voice and piano ], from In Memoriam, fragments du poème de Tennyson, no. 5, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel', Heugel et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-11-01
Line count: 12
Word count: 104