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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
Translation © possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989)

À la lisière de la forêt, —
Language: French (Français) 
À la lisière de la forêt, — 
les fleurs de rêve tintent, 
éclatent, éclairent, — 
la fille à lèvre d’orange, 
les genoux croisés dans le clair déluge 
qui sourd des prés, 
nudité qu’ombrent, traversent 
et habillent les arcs-en-ciel, la flore, la mer.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), appears in Les Illuminations [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in English, a translation possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989); composed by Earl Kim.
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Researcher for this page: Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 42

The girl with orange lips
Language: English  after the French (Français) 
At the (edge) of the forest
 [ ... ]

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Text Authorship:

  • possibly by Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906 - 1989), copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), appears in Les Illuminations
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Earl Kim (1920 - 1998), "The girl with orange lips", 1982 [ voice, harp, strings ], from Where Grief Slumbers, no. 7, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]

This text was added to the website: 2019-12-08
Line count: 8
Word count: 36

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