Columbine | Frail little girl, o rose in the mire

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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Translation © by Korin Kormick

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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Line count: 4
Word count: 31

Columbine

Language: English after the French (Français)

Frail little girl, o rose in the mire,
In a shambles, trampled underfoot before you opened,
Did not God make you in the image of angels
And so that spring perfumes your sighs?

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Colombine", appears in Les livres des quatrains, no. 3
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This text was added to the website: 2013-06-07
Line count: 4
Word count: 33