Trauer angesichts des Sommerhimmels | Seh' ich den Sommerhimmel, sanft und lau

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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Devant le ciel d'été, tiède et calmé

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Devant le ciel d'été, tiède et calmé,
Je me souviens de toi comme d'un songe,
Et mon regret fidèle aime et prolonge
  Les heures où j'étais aimé.

Les astres brilleront dans la nuit noire ;
Le soleil brillera dans le jour clair,
Quelque chose de toi flotte dans l'air,
  Qui me pénètre la mémoire.

Quelque chose de toi qui fut à moi :
Car j'ai possédé tout de ta pensée,
Et mon âme, trahie et délaissée,
  Est encor tout entière à toi.

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Text Authorship:

by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Regret", appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 28 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Regret", subtitle: "Devant le ciel", L. 59/(55) (1884) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Devant le ciel d'Été", published 1899 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Regret", 1901 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "Regret", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Trauer angesichts des Sommerhimmels", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website: 2004-07-05
Line count: 12
Word count: 80

Trauer angesichts des Sommerhimmels

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

Seh' ich den Sommerhimmel, sanft und lau,
kommst Du mir in den Sinn, gleich wie ein Traum,
und mein getreulich Sehnen längt und liebt
die Stunden, da Du mich geliebt.

Gestirne leuchten auf in dunkler Nacht;
am hellen Tage strahlt der Sonne Glanz,
ein Teil von Dir schwebt in der Luft,
das schmerzlich Dich mir in Erinn'rung ruft.

Etwas von Dir, das einst war mein:
denn all Dein Denken, es war mein;
mein Herz, verraten und allein,
gehört noch immer Dir allein.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2011 by Bertram Kottmann, (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 Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Regret", appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 28
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This text was added to the website: 2011-03-10
Line count: 12
Word count: 82