Où vas-tu, souffle d'aurore, Vent de miel qui vient d'éclore, Fraîche haleine d'un beau jour ? Où vas-tu, brise inconstante, Quand la feuille palpitante Semble frissonner d'amour ? Est-ce au fond de la vallée, Dans la cime échevelée D'un saule où le ramier dort ? Poursuis-tu la fleur vermeille, Ou le papillon qu'éveille Un matin de flamme et d'or ? Va plutôt, souffle d'aurore, Bercer l'âme que j'adore ; Porte à son lit embaumé L'odeur des bois et des mousses, Et quelques paroles douces Comme les roses de mai.
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Confirmed with Œuvres de Édouard Turquety: Amour et Foi. Poésie Catholique. Hymnes Sacrées., 5th edition, Paris, Ambroise Bray, 1857, pages 85-86.
Authorship:
- by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "Aurore", appears in Amour et Foi, Rennes, Éd. Molliex, Libraire-éditeur, first published 1833 [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 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Sérénade", op. 65 (Шесть французский романсов = Shest' francuzskij romansov (Six French romances) = Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1888), also set in Russian (Русский), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Santagano-Gorchakova (1842 - 1913) , "Серенада" ; composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Line count: 18
Word count: 89
Ty kuda letish', kak ptica, junyj syn mladoj dennicy, svezhij, chistyj veterok? V dal' speshish', togo neznaja, chto ot strasti zamiraja, kazhdyj zdes' drozhit listok! Il' v dolinu khochesh' mchat'sja, v tjomnykh ivakh pokachat'sja, gde spit sladko solovej, [mezh vetvej spit]1? Khochesh' k roze ty spustit'sja, o motyl'kom li porezvit'sja, v majskij den', pod bleskom luchej? Net, leti zareju jasnoj k toj, kogo ljublju ja strastno, k lozhu jejo ponesi zapakh roz i trav dushistykh, poceluj moj nezhnyj, chastyj, kak dunoven'e vesny.
1 Tchaikovsky: "спит меж ветвей" (spit mezh vetvej); corresponds to a repeat of "le ramier dort"
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Authorship:
- by Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Santagano-Gorchakova (1842 - 1913), "Серенада" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Edouard Turquety (1807 - 1867), "Aurore", appears in Amour et Foi, Rennes, Éd. Molliex, Libraire-éditeur, first published 1833
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893), "Серенада", op. 65 (Шесть французский романсов = Shest' francuzskij romansov (Six French romances) = Sechs Lieder) no. 1 (1888), also set in French (Français), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2003-11-30
Line count: 18
Word count: 82