Les yeux de la mer | Que me veut dans tes yeux

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by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920)

Translation © by Pierre Mathé

Meeraugen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: FRE

Was will in deinen Augen mir 
[dies]¹ dunkelvolle, fremde Weh,
so still und sehr?
so tief und schwer
wie Stürme, die Ruhe suchten
im Schooß der grauen See.

Versinken will, versinken mir
in dieser Augen tiefen Schooß
mein Herz -- und will
wie Du so still,
so wild an Dein Herz schlagen,
dann brechen die Stürme los!

Und will dich wiegen so mit mir
in rasender, lachender Seligkeit
auf freiem Meer!
bis tief und sehr
die Herzen wieder ruhen,
ruhen vom Sturm und [Leid]².

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• A. Zemlinsky

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Confirmed with Richard Dehmel, Lebensblätter: Gedichte und Anderes, Berlin, Verlag der Genossenschaft PAN, 1895, page 55.

¹ Zemlinsky: "das"
² Zemlinsky: "Streit"

Text Authorship:

by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Meeraugen", appears in Lebensblätter [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 Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Meeraugen" [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexander Zemlinsky (1871 - 1942), "Meeraugen", op. 7 (Fünf Lieder) no. 3 (1900?), published 1901 [sung text checked 1 time]

Set in a modified version by Hans Heinz Scholtys.

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FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Les yeux de la mer", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Les yeux de la mer

Language: French (Français) after the German (Deutsch)

Que me veut dans tes yeux
Ce mal étrange et sombre,
Si calme et si intense
Si profond et si lourd ?
Pareil aux tempêtes cherchant le repos
Au sein de la mer grise.

Il veut, il veut noyer
Au sein de ces yeux profonds,
Mon cœur - et veut
Quand tu es si calme,
Frapper sauvagement à ton cœur,
Et puis déchaîner la tempête !

Et veut alors te bercer avec moi
Dans une fulgurante et riante félicité,
Sur la haute mer !
Jusqu'à ce que profondément et intensément,
Nos cœurs à nouveau se reposent,
Se reposent de la tempête et [de la douleur]¹.

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¹ Zemlinsky version: "du combat"

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a text in German (Deutsch) by Richard Fedor Leopold Dehmel (1863 - 1920), "Meeraugen", appears in Lebensblätter
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This text was added to the website: 2010-03-29
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Word count: 103