A la penombra | Amb què, en aquest matí d’abril

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by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Dans la pénombre

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT DUT ENG GER

À quoi, dans ce matin d'avril,
Si douce et d'ombre enveloppée,
La chère enfant au cœur subtil
Est-elle ainsi tout occupée ?

La trace blonde de ses pas 
Se perd parmi les grilles closes ; 
Je ne sais pas, je ne sais pas. 
Ce sont d'impénétrables choses. 

Pensivement, d'un geste lent,
En longue robe, en robe a queue,
Sur le soleil au rouet blanc
A filer la laine bleue.

A sourire à son rêve encor,
Avec ses yeux de fiancée,
A tresser des feuillages d'or
Parmi les lys de sa pensée.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• G. Fauré

G. Fauré sets stanzas 1, 3-4

Confirmed with van Lerberghe, Charles, Entrevisions, suivi de Poèmes posthumes, Paris, G. Crès, 1923, pages 24-25.

Text Authorship:

by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Dans la pénombre", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 9, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898 [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 Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Dans la pénombre", op. 106 no. 6 (1914), published 1915, stanzas 1,3-4 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le jardin clos, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Durand & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "A la penombra", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "In het halfdonker nog", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "In the Shadows", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Im Zwielicht", copyright © 2015, (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: 16
Word count: 89

A la penombra

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

Amb què, en aquest matí d’abril,
tan dolça i embolcallada d’ombra,
l’estimada criatura del cor subtil,
ha estat així, tota enfeinada?

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Pensarosa, amb un gest lent,
amb vestit llarg, amb vestit de cua,
al sol, en el torn blanc,
a filar la llana blava.

A somriure del seu somni encara,
amb els seus ulls de promesa,
a trenar fullatges d’or
entre els lliris dels seus pensaments.

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), "Dans la pénombre", written 1898, appears in Entrevisions, in 1. Jeux et songes, no. 9, Bruxelles, Éd. Lacomblez, first published 1898
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This text was added to the website: 2023-02-19
Line count: 16
Word count: 70