by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Les Anges aiment nos pleurs
Language: French (Français)
Les Anges aiment nos pleurs, de cette rosée avides; parfois nous sommes des leurs de par nos joues humides. En partant ils sèchent d'un coup d'aile notre figure, sans jamais la voir si pure, déjà loin de nous....
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes et Dédicaces [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 Hideko Kawamoto (b. 1969), "Nos Pleurs" [ tape and piano ], from After the summer rain [sung text not yet checked]
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