Je me suis plaint aux tourterelles

Je me suis plaint aux tourterelles
Les tourterelles ont gémit.
Et la caresse de leurs ailes
m'a consolé comme un ami

J'ai conté ma douleur au chêne
Le chêne au coeur dur, fut touché.
Les cyprès ont compris ma peine
et vers moi leur front s'est penché

Le zéphyr, effleurant mon âme,
Bien tristement a murmuré :
Mais qui m'a guéri... c'est la femme
Quand je pleurait, elle a pleuré.

Translation(s): ENG

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Submitted by Jean-Pierre Granger

Authorship

• by Paul Robiquet (1848 - 1928) [ author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

• by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Je me suis plaint aux tourterelles", 1878 [voice and piano], from Poème d'amour, no. 1. [
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Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Jean-Pierre Granger) , title 1: "I complained to the turtle doves", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Text added to the website: 2010-10-21.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:04:03
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