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J'allais dans la campagne avec le vent d'orage, Sous le pâle matin, sous les nuages bas; Un corbeau ténébreux escortait mon voyage, Et dans les flaques d'eau retentissaient mes pas. La foudre à l'horizon faisait courir sa flamme Et l'Aquilon doublait ses longs gémissements; Mais la tempête était trop faible pour mon âme, Qui couvrait le tonnerre avec ses battements. De la dépouille d'or du frêne et de l'érable L'Automne composait son éclatant butin, Et le corbeau toujours, d'un vol inexorable, M'accompagnait sans rien changer à mon destin.
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Authorship:
- by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, appears in Le Septième Livre des Stances, Poèmes inédits de feu Jean Moréas, no. 4, Paris, Éd. posthume, Imprimerie Bernouard, first published 1920 [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "J'allais dans la campagne", 1931, published 1934 [ high voice and piano ], from Quatre Mélodies, no. 4, Éd. “Au Ménestrel” Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Air romantique", FP 46 no. 1 (1927-1928), published 1928-1930 [ soprano and piano or orchestra ], from Airs chantés, no. 1, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Romantic air", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Linda Godry) , "Romantic song", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Romantische Weise", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Linda Godry) , "Romantische Weise", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 88
Ich ging durchs Land mit dem Sturmeswind, fahl war der Morgen, tief hingen die Wolken. Ein finsterer Rabe begleitete mich auf meinen Wegen, und in den Pfützen hallten meine Schritte wider. Am Horizont entließ der Blitz seinen Feuerstrahl Und der Nordwind verdoppelte sein fortwährendes Heulen; Der Sturm war jedoch zu schwach für mein Innerstes, das den Donner mit seinem Schlagen übertönte. Vom goldenen Kleide der Esche und des Ahorns brachte der Herbst seine schimmernde Ernte ein, und immerfort, in unerbittlichem Fluge, war mir der Rabe verbunden, ohne mein Los zu ändern.
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2008 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Ioannes Papadiamantopoulos (1856 - 1910), as Jean Moréas, no title, appears in Le Septième Livre des Stances, Poèmes inédits de feu Jean Moréas, no. 4, Paris, Éd. posthume, Imprimerie Bernouard, first published 1920
This text was added to the website: 2008-02-25
Line count: 12
Word count: 91