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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Ô ma vie, que je voudrais être celui qui...
Language: French (Français) 
Ô ma vie, que je voudrais être celui qui répond
à ton plus juste désir. Ô ma vie,
en te voyant, plus tard, dira-t-on
que mon ardeur n'a point suffi
à te remplir tout entière, ma vie --,
que dis-je, à t'exalter,
à trouver le secret qui multiplie
tes possibilités ?
Enfin, à te découvrir, ma vie,
là où tout germe encore,
dans cette terre qui unifie
la vie et la mort.
Dans ta terre intime, ma vie,
d'où fut tiré mon cœur,
et dont le ciel n'est que nostalgie
de la terrestre splendeur.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 155.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 7. Poèmes épars [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 Anthony Girard (b. 1959), "Ô ma vie !", 2007, published 2008 [ high voice and harp ], Paris, Éditions Agir [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-05-02
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

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