Départ | Mon amie, il faut que je parte

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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Départ

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER GER

Mon amie, il faut que je parte.
Voulez-vous voir
l'endroit sur la carte ?
C'est un point noir.

En moi, si la chose
bien me réussit,
ce sera un point rose 
dans un vert pays.

Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Pages 256, 258.

Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Départ", appears in Poèmes français [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), "Départ", op. 27 no. 5 (1950-1), published 1952 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies passagères, no. 5, Schirmer [sung text checked 1 time]

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

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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