by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Contre qui, rose
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): GER
Contre qui, rose, avez-vous adopté ces épines ? Votre joie trop fine vous a-t-elle forcée de devenir cette chose armée ? Mais de qui vous protège cette arme exagérée ? Combien d'ennemis vous ai-je enlevés qui ne la craignaient point. Au contraire, d'été en automne, vous blessez les soins qu'on vous donne.
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Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 3. Les Roses, no. 12, first published 1927 [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 Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943), "Contre qui, rose", 1993, first performed 1994 [ chorus a cappella ], from Les Chansons des Roses, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Peter Visser (b. 1939), "Contre qui, rose", published 1987, copyright © 1987 [ voice and piano ], from Les roses, no. 2, Houten : Ascolta [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-01-19
Line count: 15
Word count: 52