Repose | Mystical and pagan pleasure

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by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933)

Translation © by Corinne Orde

Le repos

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Le plaisir mystique et païen,
L'amour, la beauté, le désir
Ont fait plus de mal que de bien
À mon âme qui s'en revient
Lasse d'aimer et de souffrir.

Allez, mon âme inassouvie,
Dormir dans l'ombre le grand somme
Ayant rêvé par triste envie
La joie au delà de la vie
Et l'amour au-dessus des hommes.

Text Authorship:

by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "Le repos", written 1901, appears in Le Cœur innombrable, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1901 [author's text not yet checked 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 George Beach (c1893 - 1951), "Le repos", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes Lyriques, no. 4, Paris, M. Senart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Le repos", op. 60 no. 2 (1930), published 1946, first performed 1932 [ medium voice and harp or piano ], from Quatre Poèmes Grecs, no. 2, Éd. Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Repose", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Repose

Language: English after the French (Français)

Mystical and pagan pleasure,
Love, beauty and desire
Have done more harm than good
To my soul that now finds itself
Weary of loving and suffering.

Go, my unappeased soul,
To sleep in the shade a deep sleep,
Having dreamed by sad desire
Of joy beyond life
And of love above humans.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2008 by Corinne Orde, (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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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "Le repos", written 1901, appears in Le Cœur innombrable, Paris, Éd. Calmann-Lévy, first published 1901
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This text was added to the website: 2008-01-21
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Word count: 52