Le silence de l’eau, lyrics by Fernand Gregh le grand jet d’eau qui sanglotait Nuit et jour, âme inconsolée Sous la voute à demi croulée Est mort cette nuit et …
Franz Ries Das verlassene Mägdlein / The foresaken maiden
Früh, wenn die Hähne kräh’n,
Eh’ die Sternlein verschwinden,
Muß ich am Herde stehn,
Muß Feuer zünden.
Franz Ries Nachtlied / Night song
Dürft’ ich mit dir dort oben gehn?
Alfred Bruneau La Sarabande
You would dance, you bastards,
Another Sarabande
Two feet above the cobblestone.
Alfred Bruneau La Pavane
Splendour golden and red and blue
Of a nameless diamond
The peacock miraculously
Unfolds its wide tail
Alfred Bruneau Le Passe-pied
C’est pour ta bouche…Que je me meurs!
Julian Aguirre Caminito / Path
Path, path
so like my sorrow
as if someone had written it
with my tears in the sand
Charles-Marie Widor Ritournelle/Refrain
And love will enhance our fantasy,
Making on this day summer even fairer
I’ll be poet, and you poetry
Wilhelm Stenhammar Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte/The girl came from meeting her lover
“Why are your hands so red, my girl?”
The girl said: “I was picking roses
and stung my hands on the thorns.”
Wilhelm Stenhammar Till en ros / To a rose
Oh, he is far away from me
behind the leaves of three forests,
behind the waves of three rivers.
Wilhelm Stenhammar I skogen / In the forest
But teach me, little violet, sweet as yours
a sorrow when happiness has ended.
Pauline Viardot L’absence / The absence
Without rest, without hope?
Does living mean suffering?