Le lilas

Ô floraison divine du Lilas,
Je te bénis, pour si peu que tu dures!
Nos pauvres coeurs de souffrir étaient las.
Enfin l'oubli guérit nos peines dures
Enivrez-nous, fleurs, horizons, verdures!
Le clair réveil du matin gracieux;
Charme l'azur irradié des cieux;
Mai fleurissant cache les blanches tombes,
Tout éclairé de feux délicieux,
Et l'air frémit, blanc des vols de colombes.

Translation(s): ITA

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Authorship

• by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Le lilas", appears in Les cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 17, first published 1842 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Le lilas", L. 36/(22) (1882). [voice and piano] [
   text verified 1 time
  ]

Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , title 1: "I lillà", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I lillà

O divina fioritura dei lillà,
Io ti benedico, anche se resti così poco!
I nostri poveri cuori di sofferenza erano là.
Infine, l'oblio guarisce le nostre dure pene:
inebriateci, o fiori, orizzonti, verzure!
Il chiaro svegliarsi del grazioso mattino;
l'incanto del cielo azzurro e luminoso;
il fiorire di maggio cela le bianche tombe,
tutti è rischiarato da una luce deliziosa
e l'aria freme, tra bianchi voli di colombe.

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• Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2009 by Enrico Magnani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
  
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• a text in French (Français) by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Le lilas", appears in Les cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 17, first published 1842
• This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Claude Achille Debussy. Go to the text.

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