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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

L'hiver a cessé : la lumière est tiède
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
L'hiver a cessé : la lumière est tiède
Et danse, du sol au firmament clair.
Il faut que le coeur le plus triste cède
À l'immense joie éparse dans l'air.

Même ce Paris maussade et malade
Semble faire accueil aux jeunes soleils
Et comme pour une immense accolade
Tend les mille bras de ses toits vermeils.

J'ai depuis un an le printemps dans l'âme
Et le vert retour du doux floréal,
Ainsi qu'une flamme entoure une flamme,
Met de l'idéal sur mon idéal.

Le ciel bleu prolonge, exhausse et couronne
L'immuable azur où rit mon amour
La saison est belle et ma part est bonne
Et tous mes espoirs ont enfin leur tour.

Que vienne l'été ! que viennent encore
L'automne et l'hiver ! Et chaque saison
Me sera charmante, ô Toi que décore
Cette fantaisie et cette raison !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Fauré 

G. Fauré sets stanzas 1, 3-5

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Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 21, first published 1870 [author's text not yet checked 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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "L'hiver a cessé", op. 61 no. 9, published 1892-3, stanzas 1,3-5 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 9, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "L'hiver a cessé", published 2003 [ high voice and piano ], from Tableaux éternels, no. 7, Hensall, Ontario (Canada), Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Claude Tricot (b. 1926), "L'hiver a cessé" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, recueil 1, no. 7, from Mathilde, 6 poèmes de P. Verlaine. , no. 3, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by B. Larin [an adaptation] ; composed by Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "S’ha acabat l’hivern", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Shawn Thuris) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 136

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