by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Lampe du soir, ma calme confidente
Language: French (Français)
Lampe du soir, ma calme confidente, mon coeur n'est point par toi dévoilé; (on s'y perdrait peut-être;) mais sa pente du côté sud est doucement éclairée. C'est encore toi, ô lampe d'étudiant, qui veux que le liseur de temps en temps s'arrête, étonné, et se d'range sur son bouquin, te regardant. (Et ta simplicité supprime un Ange.)
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Text Authorship:
- by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), no title, written 1924/1925, appears in Poèmes français, in 1. Vergers, no. 2 [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 Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Lampe du soir", 1942, published 1999 [ voice and piano ], Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philippe Mazé (b. 1954), "Lampe du soir", published 2018 [ women's chorus ], from 6 Poèmes de Rainer Maria Rilke, no. 2, Artchipel [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2013-10-01
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