Sensation | Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers

Sensation

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ITA

Par les soirs bleus d'été, j'irai dans les sentiers,
Picoté par les blés, fouler l'herbe menue :
Réveur, j'en sentirai la fraîcheur à mes pieds.
Je laisserai le vent baigner ma tète nue ! 

Je ne parlerai pas, je ne penserai rien :
Mais l'amour infïni me montera dans l'âme,
Et j'irai loin, bien loin, comme un bohémien
Par la Nature, -- heureux comme avec une femme.

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Sensation", written 1870, appears in Poésies, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1929 [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 Hendrik Andriessen (1892 - 1981), "Sensation", 1935 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois pastorales, no. 3, Utrecht (Hollande), Éd. J.R. Van Rossum [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean-Guy Bailly (1925 - 2009), "Sensation", 1987 [ baritone and piano ], from Trois poèmes d'Arthur Rimbaud, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Sensation", op. 188 (2004) [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Cartan (1906 - 1932), "Sensation", 1927, published 1928 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois chants d'été, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Edgar Cosma (1925 - 2006), "Sensation", copyright © 1985 [ SATB chorus a cappella ], from Chansons en zigzag, no. 4, Lyon, À cœur joie [sung text not yet checked]
by Jorge Delorenzi (b. 1945), "Sensation", published 1988 [ medium voice and piano ], from Homenaje a Poetas Franceses = Hommage aux Poètes Français, no. 2, Buenos Aires, Édition du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]
by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Sensation", op. 9 no. 2 (1981) [ low voice and piano ], from Trois Mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène Guillaume (1882 - 1953), "Sensation", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies, no. 2, Éditions littéraires et musicales A. Z. Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
by Hans Krása (1899 - 1944), "Sensation", 1943 [ baritone, clarinet, viola, and violoncello ], from 3 Lieder, no. 2, also set in Czech (Čeština) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Dinu Lipatti (1917 - 1950), "Sensation", 1945, published 1981 [ tenor and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies, no. 1, Muzicala Bucarest [sung text not yet checked]
by Guillemette Marrannes (b. 1954), "Sensation", 1999 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sensation, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrick Minette (b. 1962), "Sensation", 2004 [ medium voice, piano, and contrabass ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre Moret (b. 1949), "Sensation", 2001 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "Sensation", 1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean-Louis Petit (b. 1937), "Sensation", 1997 [ high voice and piano ], from Livre de poésies, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Rivier (1896 - 1987), "Sensation", 1929, published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes, no. 3, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau (1889 - 1939), as Pierre Vellones, "Sensation", op. 35 no. 2 (1930), published 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes sur la Nature, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by Pascal Zavaro (b. 1959), "Sensation", published 2006 [ medium voice and guitar ], from Sensation, sur un texte d'Arthur Rimbaud, pour soprano et guitare, no. 3, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Vítězslav Nezval (1900 - 1958) ; composed by Hans Krása.

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

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

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