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To my wife
Translations © by John Wagstaff
Song Cycle by Jacques Chailley (1910 - 1999)
View original-language texts alone: À ma femme
Femme que j'ai choisie entre toutes les femmes [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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- ENG English (John Wagstaff) , "Woman, whom I chose out of all women", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Woman, whom I chose out of all women [ ... ]
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2015 by John Wagstaff
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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Tu es la saveur de mon pain [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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- ENG English (John Wagstaff) , "You are the flavour of my bread", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
You are the flavour of my bread [ ... ]
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2015 by John Wagstaff
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 5, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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Écoute : doucement la pluie tiède commence [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), no title, appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 6, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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- ENG English (John Wagstaff) , "Listen: the warm rain begins to fall", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Listen: the warm rain begins to fall softly on the roof [ ... ]
Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2015 by John Wagstaff
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), no title, appears in La Maison blanche, in 4. Femme, no. 6, Bruxelles, Éd. du croquis, first published 1946, copyright ©
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Un jour, tu le pris dans tes mains [ ... ]
Authorship:
- by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), copyright ©
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- ENG English (John Wagstaff) , "One day, you took in your hands", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
One day, you took in your hands [ ... ]
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2015 by John Wagstaff
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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Carême (1899 - 1978), copyright ©
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