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Voici l'heure où le pré, les arbres et les fleurs Dans l'air dolent et doux soupirent leurs odeurs. Les baies du lierre obscur où l'ombre se recueille Sentant venir le soir se couchent dans leurs feuilles, Le jet d'eau du jardin, qui monte et redescend, Fait dans le bassin clair son bruit rafraîchissant ; La paisible maison respire au jour qui baisse Les petits orangers fleurissant dans leurs caisses. Le feuillage qui boit les vapeurs de l'étang Lassé des feux du jour s'apaise et se détend. - Peu à peu la maison entr'ouvre ses fenêtres Où tout le soir vivant et parfumé pénètre, Et comme elle, penché sur l'horizon, mon coeur S'emplit d'ombre, de paix, de rêve et de fraîcheur...
Text Authorship:
- by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "Le Jardin et la Maison", written 1901, appears in Le Cœur innombrable, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1901 [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 Joseph Béesau (1871 - 1940), "Le Jardin et la Maison" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Le Jardin et la Maison" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. E. Demets (Max Eschig) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Dupuis (1877 - 1967), "Le Jardin et la Maison", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 9, Bruxelles (Brussels), Éd. J.B. Katto, Antoine Ysaye & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Jean Baptiste Grisart (1837 - 1904), "Le Jardin et la Maison", published [1902] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges-Martin Witkowski (1867 - 1943), "Le jardin et la maison", op. 25 (Quatre poèmes pour chant et piano) no. 3 (1923-1924), published 1926 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Garden and the House", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-08-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 118
This is the hour when the meadow, trees and flowers sigh out their fragrance in the sweet and mournful air. The berries of the dark ivy where the shadow meditates feel the coming of evening and lie down in their leaves, the fountain in the garden, which shoots up and then falls, makes its refreshing noise in the bright pool; in the weakening daylight the peaceful house breathes in the little orange-trees flowering in their tubs. The foliage drinking the vapours of the pond, fatigued by the fires of the day, calms down and relaxes. - Gradually the house half-opens its windows letting in all the living perfumed evening, and like the house, my heart, leaning on the horizon fills with shade, with peace, with dream and with freshness...
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "Le Jardin et la Maison", written 1901, appears in Le Cœur innombrable, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1901
This text was added to the website: 2022-12-12
Line count: 14
Word count: 128