by
Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)
Venez sous la tonnelle assombrie de...
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): 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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Authorship:
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 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]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-07-12
Line count: 5
Word count: 40
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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This text was added to the website: 2024-02-11
Line count: 5
Word count: 43