Eau qui se presse | Eau qui se presse, qui court ... eau oublieuse

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Eau qui se presse, qui court ... eau...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Eau qui se presse, qui court ... eau oublieuse 
que la distraite terre boit, 
hésite un petit instant dans ma main creuse, 
    souvient-toi! 

Clair et rapide amour, indifférence, 
presque absence qui court, 
entre ton trop d'arrivée et ton trop de partance 
    tremble un peu de séjour.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/5, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 18, first published 1926 [author's text not yet checked 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 Juan José Castro (1895 - 1968), "Eau qui se presse", 1945 [ voice and piano ], from Dos canciones de Rilke, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Philippe Dartois , "Eau qui se presse", 2017 [ voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Eau qui se presse", op. 42 no. 3 (1932), published 1966 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 3, Éd. Le Chant du Monde [sung text checked 1 time]
by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Eau qui se presse", published 1999 [ voice and piano ], Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "Vergers XVIII", 1983, from O Leben, Leben, wunderliche Zeit, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

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