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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Cimetière
Language: French (Français) 
Y en a-t-il d'arrière-goût de la vie dans ces
tombes ? Et les abeilles, trouvent-elles dans
la bouche des fleurs un presque-mot qui se
tait ? Ô fleurs, prisonnières de nos instincts
de bonheur, revenez-vous vers nous avec
nos morts dans les veines ? Comment
échapper à notre emprise, fleurs ? Comment
ne pas être nos fleurs ? Est-ce de tous ses
pétales que la rose s'eloigne de nous ? Veut-elle
être rose-seule, rien-que-rose ? Sommeil de
personne sous tant de paupières ?

Confirmed with The Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, Saint Paul: Greywolf Press, 1986, Page 218.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Cimetière", appears in Exercises et évidences [author's text checked 2 times 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 Antoine Tisné (1932 - 1998), "Cimetière", 1959 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-09-30
Line count: 11
Word count: 75

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