Come beneath the trellis darkened by lilac vines

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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Venez sous la tonnelle assombrie de...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Venez sous la tonnelle assombrie de lilas
afin que je suspende, ainsi qu'une médaille,
à votre cou pareil à le rousseur du blé
et au lisse raisin qui dort sur la muraille,
avec un fil de Vierge une rose bengale...

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Text Authorship:

by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 22, first published 1906 [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 Jean Apothéloz (1900 - 1965), "Une rose bengale", 1943 [ medium voice and piano ], from Au Jardin de Francis Jammes, no. 4, MS [sung text not yet checked]
by Marie Blanche Selva (1884 - 1942), "Venez sous la tonnelle", 1908 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Venez", 1999 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 22 [sung text not yet checked]
by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Venez sous la tonnelle assombrie de lilas", op. 355 no. 22 (1956), published 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 22, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Come beneath the trellis darkened by...

Language: English after the French (Français)

Come beneath the trellis darkened by lilac vines
so that I may hang, like a medal,
around your neck like rufous harvested wheat
and like the young grapes that sleep on top of the [castle] walls,
intertwined with cobwebs [and] pink Bengale roses...

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a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 22, first published 1906
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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-11
Line count: 5
Word count: 43