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by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)

Reste tranquille, si soudain
Language: French (Français) 
Reste tranquille, si soudain
l'Ange à ta table se décide ;
efface doucement les quelques rides
que fait la nappe sous ton pain.

Tu offriras ta rude nourriture
pour qu'il en goûte à son tour,
et qu'il soulève à sa lèvre pure
un simple verre de tous les jours.

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Confirmed with Poèmes français. Vergers. Les Roses. Les Fenêtres. Carnet de Poche. Poèmes épars, Paris: Paul Hartmann, ed., 1935, page 9.


Text Authorship:

  • by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 3 [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 Georges Colin (1921 - 2002), "Reste tranquille", op. 20 no. 3 (1948-1952) [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq poèmes français de Rainer-Marie Rilke , no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joop Voorn (1932 - 2021), "Reste tranquille", 2011, published 2014, copyright © 2014 [ soprano and clarinet ], from Vues des anges, no. 2, Rijswijk, the Netherlands : : Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-03-07
Line count: 8
Word count: 48

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