Verger | Jamais la terre n'est plus réelle

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Jamais la terre n'est plus réelle

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Jamais la terre n'est plus réelle
que dans tes branches, ô verger blond,
ni plus flottante que dans la dentelle
que font les ombres sur le gazon.

Là se rencontre ce qui nous reste,
ce qui pèse et ce qui nourrit,
avec le passage manifeste
de la tendresse infinie.

Mais à ton centre, la calme fontaine,
presque dormant en son ancien rond,
de ce contraste parle à peine,
tant en elle il se confond.

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Text Authorship:

by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, in 29. Verger, no. 3 [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 Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Verger", 1939 [ mixed chorus ], from Six Chansons, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Léon Orthel (1905 - 1985), "Verger", op. 61 (Sept mélodies) no. 7 (1972), published 1972 [ high voice and piano ], Amsterdam, Ed. Donemus [sung text checked 1 time]

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by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Verger", op. 21 no. 10 (1986) [ medium voice and piano ], from Vergers, no. 10
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