Marine | Les chars d'argent et de cuivre

Marine

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG JPN SPA

Les chars d'argent et de cuivre -
Les proues d'acier et d'argent -
Battent l'écume, -
Soulèvent les souches des ronces.
Les courants de la lande,
Et les ornières immenses du reflux,
Filent circulairement vers l'est,
Vers les piliers de la forêt,
Vers les fûts de la jetée,
Dont l'angle est heurté par des tourbillons de lumière.

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Marine", written 1872, appears in Les Illuminations, first published 1886 [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 Marc Bleuse (b. 1937), "Marine", 1994, published 2001 [ soprano and piano ], from 2 mélodies sur des textes d’Arthur Rimbaud, no. 2, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]
by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Marine", op. 18 no. 5 (1939), published 1940 [ high voice and strings ], from Les Illuminations, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Monique Gabus (1924 - 2012), "Marine", 1963, published 1987 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
by Noël Lee (1924 - 2013), "Marine", 1986-87, published 1987 [ medium voice and piano four-hands ], from Azurs, quatre mélodies sur des textes de Rimbaud, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Marine", op. 45 no. 1 (1917) [ voice and piano ], from Deux Poèmes de Rimbaud, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Pascal Zavaro (b. 1959), "Marine", published 2006 [ medium voice and guitar ], from Sensation, sur un texte d'Arthur Rimbaud, pour soprano et guitare, no. 2, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]

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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 54