by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation by Ashmore Kyle Paterson Wingate (1881 - 1926?30)
Ô la rivière dans la rue !
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Ô la rivière dans la rue ! Fantastiquement apparue Derrière un mur haut de cinq pieds, Elle roule sans un murmure Son onde opaque et pourtant pure, Par les faubourgs pacifiés. La chaussée est très large, en sorte Que l'eau jaune comme une morte Dévale ample et sans nuls espoirs De rien refléter que la brume, Même alors que l'aurore allume Les cottages jaunes et noirs.
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, subtitle: "Paddington", appears in Romances sans paroles, in Aquarelles, in 3. Streets, no. 2, first published 1874 [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):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in English, a translation by Ashmore Kyle Paterson Wingate (1881 - 1926?30) , appears in Poems by Verlaine, London and Newcastle, Walter Scott Publishing Company, first published 1904 ; composed by Cecil Coles.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2012-02-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 65
Fantastic in appearance
Language: English after the French (Français)
Fantastic in appearance see The river gliding through the street. It doth without a murmur roll Behind a wall of full five feet Its wave so dark yet ne'ertheless Pure, through the suburb's peacefulness. So very great the runnel is The water which is yellowing Like death swells sinking without hope Aught save the fog of mirroring Not even when the dawn lights All the houses yellow, black and small!
Text Authorship:
- by Ashmore Kyle Paterson Wingate (1881 - 1926?30), appears in Poems by Verlaine, London and Newcastle, Walter Scott Publishing Company, first published 1904 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, subtitle: "Paddington", appears in Romances sans paroles, in Aquarelles, in 3. Streets, no. 2, first published 1874
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Cecil Coles (1888 - 1918), "Fantastic in appearance" [soprano and orchestra], from Verlaine Lieder (Four Verlaine Songs), no. 1. [text verified 1 time]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2012-09-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 70