Translation by Alexis Paulin Pâris (1800 - 1881)

There be none of Beauty's daughters
Language: English 
Available translation(s): CAT DUT ITA
There be none of Beauty's daughters
  With a magic like thee;
And like music on the waters
  Is thy sweet voice to me:
When, as if its sound were causing
The [charmèd]1 ocean's pausing,
The waves lie still and gleaming,
And the lull'd winds seem dreaming:

And the midnight moon is weaving
  Her bright chain o'er the deep;
Whose breast is gently heaving
  As an infant's asleep:
So the spirit bows before thee,
To listen and adore thee;
With a full but soft emotion,
Like the swell of Summer's ocean.

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1 Mendelssohn: "charm'd"

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  • Also set in Danish (Dansk), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [an adaptation] ; composed by Emil Sjögren.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation possibly by Karl Klingemann (1798 - 1862); composed by Felix Mendelssohn.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Gildemeister (1823 - 1902) ; composed by Ludwig Hess, Alexander Ritter, Hugo Wolf.
  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Ernst Ortlepp (1800 - 1864) ; composed by Franz Paul Lachner.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Nikolai Platonovich Ogaryov (1813 - 1877) , "Стансы" ; composed by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky, Kristian Genrikh Paufler, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Shakhmatov, Konstantin Nikolayevich Startsev.
  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , "Стансы для музыки", written 1903 ; composed by Emil Cooper, Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky.

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Sloky pro hudbu"
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) [singable] (Lau Kanen) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Alexis Paulin Pâris) , "Stances à mettre en musique"
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Fra tutte le più belle", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 90

Stances à mettre en musique
Language: French (Français)  after the English 
Parmi les filles de la beauté il n'en est aucune
dont les attraits aient autant de magie que les tiens:
et comme une sérénade sur les eaux,
ainsi ta voix m'est douce,
alors que tes accens paraissent maintenir
le calme de l'océan charmé
que les flots demeurent immobiles et brillent d'un paisible azur,
et que les vents semblent endormis dans un doux rêve.

Cependant la lune en plein minuit entrelace
ses brillans reflets sur l'abîme des ondes,
qui se soulèvent avec grâce
comme le sein d'un enfant qui sommeille.
L'ame s'abaisse devant toi
pour t'écouter et t'adorer,
toute émue, mais d'une douce émotion,
comme les vagues d'une mer d'été.

Note : l'orthographe est celle de l'édition des œuvres complètes de lord Byron publiée en 1830-1831 par Thomas Moore et visible sur le site de gallica.bnf.fr (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k201084x/f259.image.r=byron.langFR)

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This text was added to the website: 2012-01-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 109