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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Une dentelle s'abolit
Language: French (Français) 
Une dentelle s'abolit
Dans le doute du Jeu suprême
À n'entr'ouvrir comme un blasphème
Qu'absence éternelle de lit.

Cet unanime blanc conflit
D'une guirlande avec la même,
Enfui contre la vitre blême
Flotte plus qu'il n'ensevelit.

Mais chez qui du rêve se dore
Tristement dort une mandore
Au creux néant musicien

Telle que vers quelque fenêtre
Selon nul ventre que le sien,
Filial on aurait pu naître.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Stéphane Mallarmé, Poésies, Nouvelle Revue française, 1914 (8e éd.), p. 150-151. The poem has the Roman numeral III at the top of it but does not appear to be part of a named set within the grouping Plusieurs sonnets. First appeared in La Revue indépendante, January 1887.


Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), no title, appears in Poésies, in Plusieurs sonnets, first published 1887 [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 Jean Langlais (1907 - 1991), "Une dentelle s'abolit", 1934 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carlos Salzedo (1885 - 1961), "Une dentelle s'abolit", 1924 [ soprano, harp, piano ], from Three Poems of Stephane Mallarmé, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Richard von Schaukal) , no title


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-03-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 67

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