Soon the blue and joyful isle

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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Translation © by Korin Kormick

Bientôt l'île bleue et joyeuse

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Bientôt l'île bleue et joyeuse
Parmi les rocs m'apparaîtra ;
L'île sur l'eau silencieuse
Comme un nénuphar flottera.

A travers la mer d'améthyste
Doucement glisse le bateau,
Et je serai joyeux et triste
De tant me souvenir -- bientôt.

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Text Authorship:

by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), "En mer", appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 2. La mort de l'amour, no. 19, first published 1876 [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 Isaac de Camondo (1851 - 1911), "Île bleue" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch [sung text not yet checked]

This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La mort de l'amour", op. 19 no. 2 (1887), published 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 2

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

ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 37

Soon the blue and joyful isle

Language: English after the French (Français)

Soon the blue and joyful isle
Will appear to me among the rocks;
The isle upon the silent water
Floats like a water lily.

Across the amethyst sea
The boat gently glides,
And I will be joyful and sad
At how much I remember - Soon!

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Translation of title "La mort de l'amour" = "The death of love".

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), "En mer", appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 2. La mort de l'amour, no. 19, first published 1876
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This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 45