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Dans le golfe aux jardins ombreux, Des couples blonds d'amants heureux Ont fleuri les mâts langoureux De ta galère, Et, caressé de doux été, Notre beau navire enchanté, Vers des pays de volupté : Fend l'onde claire ! [Viens]1, nous sommes les souverains Des lumineux déserts marins, Sur les flots ravis et sereins Berçons nos rêves ! Tes pâles mains ont le pouvoir D'embaumer au loin l'air du soir, Et, dans tes yeux, je crois revoir, Le ciel des grèves ! Mais là-bas au soleil, Surgit le cher pays vermeil D'où s'élève un chant de réveil Et d'allégresse ; C'est l'île heureuse aux cieux légers Où, parmi les lys étrangers, Je dormirai, dans les vergers Sous ta caresse !
1 Chabrier: "Vois"
Text Authorship:
- by Georges-Ephraïm Michel (1866 - 1890), as Éphraïm Mikhaël, "L'île heureuse", written 1890, appears in Œuvres: Poésie, poèmes en prose, in Poésie, no. 32, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1890 [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 Emmanuel Chabrier (1841 - 1894), "L'île heureuse", 1892? [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Raoul Gradis (1861 - 1943), "L'Île heureuse" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "L'Île heureuse", 1900, published 2014 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Mélodies, premier recueil, no. 10b, Éd. de l'IEMJ ; uses the same music as 'Pour Cythère' (number 10 in the second collection of ten songs), also set in French (Français) [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Happy Isle", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Massimo Bandinelli) , "L'isola felice", copyright © 2010, (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: 24
Word count: 115
Nel golfo, presso i giardini ombrosi, coppie di biondi amanti felici avevano adornato di fiori gli alberi della tua barca, e, accarezzata dalla dolce estate, la nostra bella nave incantata, verso paesi di delizia, fende l'acqua limpida. Guarda: noi siamo i sovrani di questo luminoso deserto marino, sopra le onde, serene ed eccitati, culliamo i nostri sogni! Le tue mani bianche hanno il potere di profumare a distanza l'aria della sera e nei tuoi occhi mi par di rivedere il cielo delle spiaggie! Ma laggiù al sole, sorge il caro paese dorato, da dove s'innalza un canto di risveglio e di gioia; è l'isola felice dei cieli limpidi dove, tra gigli esotici, dormirò nei frutteti sotto le tue carezze!
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- Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Massimo Bandinelli, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Georges-Ephraïm Michel (1866 - 1890), as Éphraïm Mikhaël, "L'île heureuse", written 1890, appears in Œuvres: Poésie, poèmes en prose, in Poésie, no. 32, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1890
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-03
Line count: 24
Word count: 119