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Je devine, à travers un murmure, Le contour subtil des voix anciennes Et dans les lueurs musiciennes, Amour pâle, une aurore future ! Et mon âme et mon cœur en délires Ne sont plus qu'une espèce d'œil double Où tremblote à travers un jour trouble L'ariette, hélas ! de toutes lyres ! Ô mourir de cette mort seulette Que s'en vont, cher amour qui t'épeures, Balançant jeunes et vieilles heures ! Ô mourir de cette escarpolette !
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- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 2 [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 Edmond Arnaud (1875 - 1959), "Ariettes oubliées", 1906 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Je devine à travers", op. 5 no. 2 (1912), first performed 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Deux poèmes nach Paul Verlaine, no. 2, St. Petersburg, Tabiti, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Arthur Vincent Lourié (1891 - 1966), "Je devine, a travers", 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Verlaine, no. 2, Petrograd / Moscow, Государственное музыкальное издательство (Gosudarstvennoe muzykal’noe izdatel’stvo ) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Je devine, à travers un murmure ", op. 53 no. 2 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 2, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Ariette oubliée", 1908, published 1929 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 9, Paris, Gilles [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Je devine, à travers un murmure ", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, recueil 2, no. 6, Paris, Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan George (1868 - 1933) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 2 ; composed by Winfried Zillig.
- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 - 1924) , no title ; composed by Arthur Vincent Lourié.
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-02
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In hearing a murmur, I sense the subtle contour of voices from the past and in their musical gleams, pale love, a future dawn! Now my heart and soul, delirious, are nothing but a double eye where trembles, through murky light the song, alas! of all lyres! Oh to die from this solitary death which is rocked to and fro, dear frightened love, by recent and bygone hours! Oh to die from this dizzying swing!
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- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 2
This text was added to the website: 2021-03-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 75