by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958)
Llueve sobre el río
Language: Spanish (Español)
Our translations: IRI
Llueve sobre el río. El agua estremece los fragrantes juncos de la orilla verde. ¡Ay! qué ansioso olor a pétalo frío. Llueve sobre el río. Mi barca parece mi sueño en un vago mundo. Orilla verde, ¡Ay!, barca sin junco. ¡Ay! Corazón frío. Llueve sobre el río.
Text Authorship:
- by Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (1881 - 1958) [author's text not yet checked 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 Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "Llueve sobre el río", 1945, published 1961 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- IRI Irish (Gaelic) [singable] (Gabriel Rosenstock) , copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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