by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)
Colombine
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Frêle petite fille, ô rose dans la fange Du cirque, piétinée avant que de t'ouvrir ! Dieu ne t'avait-il faite à l'image des anges Et pour que le printemps parfumât tes soupirs ?
Confirmed with Francis Jammes, Le troisième livre de quatrains, Paris: Mercure de France, 1924, Page 7.
Text Authorship:
- by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Colombine", appears in Les livres des quatrains, 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 Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Colombine" [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Marcel Delannoy (1898 - 1962), "Colombine", 1935, published 1936, copyright © 1936 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Cinq Quatrains de Francis Jammes, no. 4, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Columbine", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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