A plume of clear water | A plume of clear water, a fragile rain

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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Translation © by Peter Low

Plume d'eau claire

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Plume d'eau claire pluie fragile
Fraîcheur voilée de caresses
De regards et de paroles
Amour qui voile ce que j'aime.

Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 1, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 293.

Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Plume d'eau claire", appears in À toute épreuve , in L'univers-solitude, no. 7, appears in La vie immédiate, in L'univers-solitude, no. 10, first published 1932 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Plume d'eau claire", FP 77 no. 3 (1935), published 1935 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Paul Éluard, no. 3, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Peter Low) , "A plume of clear water", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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A plume of clear water

Language: English after the French (Français)

 A plume of clear water, a fragile rain,
 a freshness veiled by caresses,
 by gazes, by words -
 love which veils what I love.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Plume d'eau claire", appears in À toute épreuve , in L'univers-solitude, no. 7, appears in La vie immédiate, in L'univers-solitude, no. 10, first published 1932
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 24