Le manoir de Rosemonde
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: DUT ENG ENG JPN SPA
De sa dent soudaine et vorace,
Comme un chien l'amour m'a mordu...
En suivant mon sang répandu,
Va, tu pourras suivre ma trace...
Prends un cheval de bonne race,
Pars, et suis mon chemin ardu,
Fondrière ou sentier perdu,
Si la course ne te harasse !
En passant par où j'ai passé,
Tu verras que seul et blessé
J'ai parcouru ce triste monde.
Et qu'ainsi je m'en fus mourir
Bien loin, bien loin, sans découvrir
Le bleu manoir de Rosamonde.
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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):
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , "Het Slot van Rosemonde", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Rosemonde's Manor-House", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Kyle Gee) , "The manor of Rosemonde", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "ロズモンドの館", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Raedcavid De Jesús) , "La casa solariega de Rosemonde", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Guy Laffaille
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 79
Rosemonde's Manor‑House
Language: English after the French (Français)
Love, like a dog, has bitten me
with its sudden, voracious teeth...
Come, the trail of spilt blood
will enable you to follow my tracks.
Take a horse of good pedigree
and set off on the arduous route I took,
through swamps and overgrown paths,
if that's not too exhausting a ride for you!
As you pass where I passed,
you will see that I travelled
alone and wounded through this sad world,
and thus went off to my death
far, far away, without ever finding
Rosemonde's blue manor-house.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2001 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Line count: 14
Word count: 89
