離別 | 看夠了。已經看過所有各式各樣的景象了。

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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Translation © by Yen-Chiang Che

Départ

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG JPN SPA

Assez vu. La vision s'est rencontrée à tous les airs.
Assez eu. Rumeurs des Villes, le soir, et au soleil, et toujours.
Assez connu. Les arrêts de la vie. Ô Rumeurs et Visions!
Départ dans l'affection et le bruit neufs!

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Départ", written 1873-5, appears in Les Illuminations [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 (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Départ", op. 18 no. 9 (1939), published 1940 [ high voice and strings ], from Les Illuminations, no. 9 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Philippe Hersant (b. 1948), "Départ", 1998 [ mixed chorus a cappella ], from Allegories, no. 3, Éditions Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
by Judith Lang Zaimont , "Départ", 1974, first performed 1975 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons nobles et sentimentales, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Pascal Zavaro (b. 1959), "Départ", published 2006 [ medium voice and guitar ], from Sensation, sur un texte d'Arthur Rimbaud, pour soprano et guitare, no. 4, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [sung text not yet checked]

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

CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "離別", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Ahmed E. Ismail) , "Departure", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , "出発", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Partida", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 40

離別

Language: Chinese (中文) after the French (Français)

看夠了。已經看過所有各式各樣的景象了。
體驗夠了。城市的呢喃　在黃昏中、在陽光下、在永恆裏。
瞭解夠了。生命的判決。哦！呢喃和景象！
在新的情感和新的噪音裏，離別！

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to Chinese (中文) copyright © 2009 by Yen-Chiang Che, (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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a text in French (Français) by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Départ", written 1873-5, appears in Les Illuminations
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This text was added to the website: 2009-06-11
Line count: 4
Word count: 5