Сталактиты | Мне дорог грот, где дымным светом

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)

Translation by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis

Les Stalactites

Language: French (Français)

J'aime les grottes où la torche
Ensanglante une épaisse nuit,
Où l'écho fait, de porche en porche,
Un grand soupir du moindre bruit.
 
Les stalactites à la voûte
Pendent en pleurs pétrifiés
Dont l'humidité, goutte à goutte,
Tombe lentement à mes pieds.
 
Il me semble qu'en ces ténèbres
Règne une douloureuse paix ;
Et devant ces longs pleurs funèbres
Suspendus sans sécher jamais,
 
Je pense aux âmes affligées
Où dorment d'anciennes amours :
Toutes les larmes sont figées,
Quelque chose y pleure toujours.

Text Authorship:

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Les stalactites", appears in Les Solitudes [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 Matthieu Roy (b. 1980), "Les Stalactites", published 2020 [ soprano and piano ], from Solitudes, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947) ; composed by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Taneyev, Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev.

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-03-04
Line count: 16
Word count: 81

Сталактиты

Language: Russian (Русский) after the French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Мне дорог грот, где дымным светом
Мой факел сумрак багрянит,
Где эхо грустное звучит 
На вздох невольный мой ответом;

Мне дорог грот, где сталактиты, 
Как горьких слёз замёрзший ряд,
На сводах каменных висят, 
Где капли падают на плиты.

Пусть вечно в сумраке печальном 
Царит торжественный покой,
И сталактиты предо мной
Висят убором погребальным...

Увы! Любви моей давно
замёрзли горестные слёзы, 
Но всё же сердцу суждено
Рыдать и в зимние морозы.

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Text Authorship:

by Lev L'vovich Kobylinsky (1889 - 1947), as Ellis [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in French (Français) by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Les stalactites", appears in Les Solitudes
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Taneyev (1850 - 1918), "Сталактиты" [sung text not yet checked]
by Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856 - 1915), "Сталактиты", op. 26 no. 6 (1908), published 1909 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Стихотворений из сборника Эллисъ «Иммортели» (10 Stikhotvorenij iz sbornika Ellis 'Immorteli') = 10 Poems from Ellis's Immortelles, no. 6, Berlin : Russischer Musikverlag [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-03
Line count: 16
Word count: 70