by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
Rayons des yeux et des soleils
Language: French (Français)
Rayons des yeux et des soleils Des ramures et des fontaines Lumière du sol et du ciel De l'homme et de l'oubli de l'homme Un nuage couvre le sol Un nuage couvre le ciel Soudain la lumière m'oublie La mort seule demeure entière Je suis une ombre je ne vois plus Le soleil jaune le soleil rouge Le soleil blanc le ciel changeant Je ne sais plus La place du bonheur vivant Au bord de l'ombre sans ciel ni terre.
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Text Authorship:
- by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, no title, written 1938, appears in Le livre ouvert, in 1. Le livre ouvert, I, in Vue donne vie, no. 1, Éd. des Cahiers d'Art, first published 1940 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Rayons des yeux", FP 147 no. 1 (1950), published 1951 [ medium voice and piano ], from La Fraîcheur et le feu, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Frank Van Nimwegen (b. 1961), "Rayons des yeux", 1995 [ SATB chorus ], from Six images intemporelles, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Lichtstrahl der Augen", copyright © 2013, (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.
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