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Au mois d'avril, la Terre est rose Comme la jeunesse et l'amour ; Pucelle encore, à peine elle ose Payer le Printemps de retour. Au mois de juin, déjà plus pâle Et le cœur de désir troublé, Avec l'Eté tout brun de hâle Elle se cache dans le blé. Au mois d'août, bacchante enivrée, Elle offre à l'Automne son sein, Et, roulant sur la peau tigrée, Fait jaillir le sang du raisin. En décembre, petite vieille, Par les frimas poudrée à blanc, Dans ses rêves elle réveille L'Hiver auprès d'elle ronflant.
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- by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Lied", appears in Émaux et Camées [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 Andrée Marie Clémence Bonhomme (1905 - 1982), "Au mois d'Avril", op. 82 no. 2 (1937) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "Lied", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Quelques émaux et camées, no. 5, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Arthur Hervey (1855 - 1922), "Au mois d'avril" [ medium voice and piano ], London, Pitt & Hatzfeld [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustave Léon Huberti (1843 - 1910), "Lied", op. 71 [ soprano and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Bruxelles: Gustave Huberti [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Armande de Polignac (1876 - 1962), "Au mois d'avril", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Baudoux [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Lied", op. 39 (Trois mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 2, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frans Louis Wiemans (1889 - 1935), "Lied", op. 2, published 1922 [ high voice and piano ], Berlin, Raabe & Plothow [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2013-04-01
Line count: 16
Word count: 90
The Earth in April is pink like youth and love; virginal still, she barely dares to pay Spring just returned. In June she's already paler and her heart is troubled by desire, so with Summer, tanned by the sun, she hides in the wheat. In August, a drunken bacchante, she offers her breast to Autumn, and rolling on the tiger-skin, makes the blood of the grapes squirt out. And December, a little old woman, powdered white by the frost, in her dreams she wakes up Winter snoring beside her.
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- a text in French (Français) by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Lied", appears in Émaux et Camées
This text was added to the website: 2022-08-24
Line count: 16
Word count: 89