by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Après trois ans
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ITA
Ayant poussé la porte étroite qui chancelle, Je me suis promené dans le petit jardin Qu'éclairait doucement le soleil du matin, Pailletant chaque fleur d'une humide étincelle. Rien n'a changé. J'ai tout revu : l'humble tonnelle De vigne folle avec les chaises de rotin... Le jet d'eau fait toujours son murmure argentin Et le vieux tremble sa plainte sempiternelle. Les roses comme avant palpitent ; comme avant, Les grands lys orgueilleux se balancent au vent. Chaque alouette qui va et vient m'est connue. Même j'ai retrouvé debout la Velléda Dont le plâtre s'écaille au bout de l'avenue, — Grêle, parmi l'odeur fade du réséda.
Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, in Melancholia, pages 17-18.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Après trois ans", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 1. Melancholia, no. 3, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 2 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 Marcel Briclot , "Après trois ans", published 1929 [ voice and piano ], Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frédéric Durupt , "Après trois ans", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], Clermont-Ferrand, Perretière [sung text not yet checked]
- by Béatrix Helque , "Après trois ans", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Lacroix , "Après trois ans" [ voice and piano ], from Le petit jardin, Crescendo [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges-Victor Lafon , "Après trois ans", published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Bigolet et Melon [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Otlet , "Après trois ans", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Melancholia, no. 2, Bosworth et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Reymond , "Après trois ans", published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Nos compositeurs romands : 10 mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philip Wilby (b. 1949), "Aprés trois ans", copyright © 1988, first performed 1983 [ medium voice and piano ], from Ten songs of Paul Verlaine for medium voice and piano, Cycle I : Melancholia, no. 2, Chester Music [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "After Three Years", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 1. Melancholia, no. 3
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Dopo tre anni", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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