by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
Translation by André Gide (1869 - 1951)
Sommeil
Language: French (Français) after the English
Sommeil, sommeil, ô mon précieux sommeil
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Text Authorship:
- by André Gide (1869 - 1951), appears in Gitanjali (L'Offrande lyrique), no. 47, Paris, Éd. NRF, Gallimard, first published 1914
Based on:
- a text in English by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), no title, appears in Gitanjali, no. 47, first published 1912
Based on:
- a text in Bangla (Bengali) by Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941), appears in গীতাঞ্জলি (Gitanjali), no. 47 [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henriette Puig-Roget (1910 - 1992), "Sommeil", from Le Temps de la solitude. Douze mélodies sur des poèmes de l'Offrande lyrique de Tagore, no. 9
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