by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Dors au fond de l'allée
Language: French (Français)
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Dors au fond de l'allée, tendre enfant, sous la dalle, on fera le chant de l'été autour de ton intervalle. Si une blanche colombe passait au vol là-haut, je n'offrirais à ton tombeau que son ombre qui tombe.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 131.
Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Tombeau", subtitle: "(dans un parc)", appears in Poèmes français, in 7. Poèmes épars [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 Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 27 no. 3 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 3, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Tombeau dans un parc", op. 21 no. 14 (1983) [ high voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Tomba en un parc", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Thomas A. Gregg) , "Grave in a park", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Ruhestatt in einem Park", 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.
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