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Canti lunatici

Song Cycle by Bernard Rands (1935-)

1. Ed è sùbito sera

Language: Italian

Authorship

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)


Ognuno sta solo sul cuor della terra
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2. Simples

Language: English

Authorship

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Pomes Penyeach

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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

FRE

French


Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild
The moon a web of silence weaves
In the still garden where a child
Gathers the simple salad leaves.

A moondew stars her hanging hair
And moonlight kisses her young brow
And, gathering she sings an air:
[Fair as the wave is, fair art thou!]¹

Be mine, I pray, a waxen ear
To shield me from her childish croon,
And mine a shielded heart for her
Who gathers simples of the moon.

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First published in Poetry, May 1917
¹ Bliss: "O bella bionda! Sei come l'onda!", from the inscription

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3. Welcome to the moon

Language: English

Authorship

Anonymous/Unidentified Artist

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Anonymous/Unidentified Artist


Welcome, precious stone of night,
Delight of the skies, precious sweet stone of the still night,
mother of stars, precious silent stone of the night skies,
Child reared by the Sun, precious simple stone of the silent night
Excellency of stars, precious stone of the night.

4. La luna asoma

Language: Spanish

Authorship

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

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Cuando sale la luna
se pierden las campañas
y aparecen las sendas
impenetrables.

Cuando sale la luna,
el mar cubre la tierra
y el corazón se siente
isla en el infinito.

Nadie come naranjas
bajo la luna llena.
Es preciso comer
fruta verde y helada.

Cuando sale la luna
de cién rostros iguales,
la moneda de plata
solloza en el bolsillo.

5. Ein in sich gekehrter Mond

Language: German

Authorship

Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)


Ein in sich gekehrter Mond
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6. The moon

Language: English

Authorship

William Blake (1757-1827)

Songs of Innocence and Experience

Songs of Innocence

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The moon, like a flower
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.
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7. Romance de la luna

Language: Spanish

Authorship

Federico García Lorca (1898-1936)

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La luna vino a la fragua
con su polisón de mardos.
El niño la mira, mira.
El niño la está mirando.
En el aire conmovido
mueve la luna sus brazos
y enseña, lúbrica y pura,
sus senos de duro estaño.

8. Ein großes Mondtreffen ist anberaumt worden

Language: German

Authorship

Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)


Ein großes Mondtreffen ist anberaumt worden
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9. Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene

Language: English

Authorship

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass

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Look down, fair moon and bathe this scene,
Pour softly down night's nimbus floods, on faces ghastly, swollen, purple;
On the dead, on their backs, with [their]¹ arms toss'd wide,
Pour down your unstinted nimbus, sacred moon.

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¹ omitted by Rands.

10. From "The Moon and the Yew Tree"

Language: English

Authorship

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

The Moon and the Yew Tree


The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right
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11. Ein Mond aus Blut

Language: German

Authorship

Jean (Hans) Arp (1887-1966)


Ein Mond aus Blut
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12. Amer au goût ce soir, jaloux

Language: French

Authorship

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)


Amer au goût ce soir, jaloux
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13. Moonrise

Language: English

Authorship

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I woke in the midsummer not-to-call night
  in the white and the walk of the morning:
The moon, dwindled and thinned to the fringe
  of a fingernail held to the candle,
Or paring of paradisaical fruit,
  lovely in waning but lustreless
Stepped from the stool, drew back from the barrow
  of dark Maenefa the mountain;
A cusp yet clasped him, a fluke yet fanged him
  entangled him, not quite utterly.
This was the prized, the desirable sight,
  unsought, presented so easily,
Parted me leaf and leaf, divided me
  eyelid and eyelid of slumber.

14. The waning moon

Language: English

Authorship

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

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And, like a dying lady, lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in a gauzy veil,
Out of her chamber, led by the insane
And feeble wanderings of her fading brain,
The moon arose up in the murky East,
A white and shapeless mass...

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15. Finita è la notte

Language: Italian

Authorship

Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-1968)

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Finita è la notte
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