by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926)
Le jour où je vous vis pour la première...
Language: French (Français)
Le jour où je vous vis pour la première fois, Vous aviez un air triste et gai : dans votre voix Pleuraient des rossignols captifs, sifflaient des merles ; Votre bouche rieuse, où fleurissaient des perles, Gardait à ses deux coins d'imperceptibles plis ; Vos grands yeux bleus semblaient des calices remplis Par l'orage, et séchant les larmes de la pluie A la brise d'avril qui chante et les essuie ; Et des ombres passaient sur votre front vermeil Comme un papillon noir dans un rais de soleil.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Les caresses, Nouvelle Édition, Paris, G. Charpentier, [no date], page 5.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), no title, written 1877, appears in Les Caresses, in 1. Floréal, no. 2, Paris, Éd. M. Dreyfous, first published 1882 [author's text checked 1 time 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 César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Le jour où je vous vis", op. 44 no. 11 (1890) [ voice and piano ], from Vingt Poèmes de Jean Richepin, no. 11, Éd. "Au Menestrel" Henri Heugel, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "La rencontre", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Les caresses, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Le jour où je vous vis", op. 48, Heft 1 (Floréal) no. 1 (1924), published 1927 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le poème de l'amour, no. 1, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "The day when I saw you", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Francesco Campanella) , "Il giorno che ti vidi", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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