La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliers Laissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles ; L'homme y passe à travers des forêts de symboles Qui l'observent avec des regards familiers. Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent, Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent. Il est des parfums frais comme des chairs d'enfants, Doux comme les hautbois, verts comme les prairies, -- Et d'autres, corrompus, riches et triomphants, Ayant l'expansion des choses infinies, Comme l'ambre, le musc, le benjoin et l'encens, Qui chantent les transports de l'esprit et des sens.
Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 19-20. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1861, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 15-16. Also confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Œuvres complètes de Charles Baudelaire, vol. I : Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Michel Lévy frères, 1868, in Spleen et Idéal, page 92. Punctuation and formatting follows 1857 edition.
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Correspondances", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 4, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857 [author's text checked 3 times 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 Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Correspondances", 1901 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 7, Édition Mutuelle (1909); Éd. Rouart-Lerolle / Salabert (1921) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Robert Montfort (d. 1941), "Correspondances", published [1911] [ high voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Baudelaire, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Cyril Plante (b. 1975), "Correspondances", op. 111 no. 3, published 2006 [ high voice and piano ], from Cycle Baudelairien, no. 3, Édition du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Correspondances", KSS 21 no. 1 (1918), published 1921, copyright © 1921, first performed 1921 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes pour chant et piano, no. 1, London, London and Continental Music Publishing Co [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Haasz) , "Shody"
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Goll) , "Souzvuky"
- ENG English (Emily Wyatt) , "Correspondences", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Correlatives", written 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "Correlatives", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Cyril Meir Scott) , "Echoes", appears in The Flowers of Evil, London, Elkin Mathews, first published 1909
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Kapcsolódások", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- POR Portuguese (Português) (Delfim Guimarães) , "Correspondências", appears in As Flores do Mal
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
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Jest Příroda jak chrám, kde živoucí jsou sloupy, z nich někdy vyjda hlas cos temně napoví; les velký symbolů je okres chrámový, ty zrakem přátelským zří na toho, kdo vstoupí. Směs ozvěn spojených jak jeden souzvuk vydá, jež přišly z daleka a v jedno splynou v něm, jak světla souhlas den, jak noc je souhlas těm, tak vůně si i ton i barva odpovídá. Jsou jako dětské tílko vůně čerstvé, milé, jak hoboj sladké, vůně zelené jak tráva, — a jiné nádherné a hříšné, rozmařilé, Jež do nekonečna se rozptylujíc víří, jak ambra, kadidlo, jak benzoë, mošus dává: v jich zpěvu duch i tělo jásajíce hýří.
Confirmed with BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Výbor z Květů zla translated by Jaroslav Goll, Praha : Otto, 1927, page 17.
Text Authorship:
- by Jaroslav Goll (1846 - 1929), "Souzvuky" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), "Correspondances", appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 4, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
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This text was added to the website: 2019-07-15
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