by
Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons :
Les filles la trouvent sauvage.
-- On la fuit, -- et les beaux garçons
Ne l'embrassent pas au passage.
Elle s'en va loin des maisons,
S'asseoir près de la mer immense.
Nul ne regrette son absence :
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.
Noël vient, vêtu de glaçons :
On danse autour du feu qui brille ;
-- Nul n'invite la pauvre fille --
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.
Mais elle sait le chant austère
Qui vibre au cœur silencieux,
Et que n'écoute point la terre :
-- Myrto sait la chanson des cieux ?
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Confirmed with Poésies de Armand Silvestre, 1866-1872, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1880, page 68.
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Myrto", published 1885 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quinze mélodies, deux chœurs, no. 3, Éd. Hartmann & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "Myrto" [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 11, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Wroblewski , "Myrto" [ high voice and piano ], from Six Feuillets d'Album, no. 1, Éd. H. Rohdé [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Myrto", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Myrto
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Myrto knows nothing of songs,
The girls find her untamed.
They flee from her, and the handsome boys
Do not kiss her in passing by.
She goes far from the houses,
Sitting near the immense sea.
No one regrets her absence:
Myrto knows nothing of songs.
Christmas comes, dressed in icicles:
Everyone dances around the fire which shines;
No one invites the poor girl.
Myrto knows nothing of songs.
But she knows the austere singing
Which resonates in the silent heart,
And which the earth does not heed:
Does Myrto know the song of the skies?
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