by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Marine
Language: French (Français)
L'océan sonore Palpite sous l'oeil De la lune en deuil Et palpite encore, Tandis qu'un éclair Brutal et sinistre Fend le ciel de bistre D'un long zigzag clair, Et que chaque lame, En bonds convulsifs Parmi les récifs, Va, vient, luit et clame, Et qu'au firmament, Où l'ouragan erre Rugit le tonnerre Formidablement.
Authorship
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Marine", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 2. Eaux-fortes, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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-Pierre Beugniot (b. 1935), "Marine" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul Cribeillet (1896 - 1969), "Marine", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Darras (b. 1922), "Marine", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "Marine", 1971/1972 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Suzannet Obadia , "Marine", 1951 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Patrick Pedrali , "Marine", 1966 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Marine", op. 38 no. 10 (1916), published 1924 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Spleens et Détresses, no. 10, Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Marine", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Seestück", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Geoffrey Wieting
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 53