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Si tu veux je te donnerai Mon matin, mon matin gai Avec tous mes clairs cheveux Que tu aimes ; Mes yeux verts Et dorés Si tu veux. Je te donnerai tout le bruit Qui se fait Quand le matin s'éveille Au soleil Et l'eau qui coule Dans la fontaine Tout auprès ; Et puis encor le soir qui viendra vite. Le soir de mon âme triste A pleurer Et mes mains toutes petites Avec mon cœur qu'il faudra près du tien Garder.
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Note: First published in Les Marges, no. 14, March 1909.
Text Authorship:
- sometimes misattributed to Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Louise Lalanne
- by Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956), "Le Présent", written 1908, appears in Il y a, in Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1909 [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 Louis Beydts (1896 - 1953), "Le Présent", 1946, published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 2, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Présent", 1952 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Le Présent", 1947, published 1988, first performed 1947 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Le Présent", FP 57 no. 1 (1931) [ high voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucie Vellère (1896 - 1966), "Le Présent", published 1975 [ soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone ], from Trois poèmes d'Apollinaire, no. 1, Brussels : CeBeDeM [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "The present", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das Geschenk", copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 81
Wenn du willst, dann schenk’ ich dir meinen ganzen heitren Morgen und all mein helles Haar, das du so liebst; und meine Augen, grün und golden, wenn du willst. Ich schenk’ dir alle Töne, die erklingen, wenn der Tag erwacht der Sonn’ entgegen und auch das Wasser, das im Brunnen springt ganz nah; und dann den Abend noch, der eilends naht. Den Abend meiner Seele, traurig tränenvoll, und meine kleinen, kleinen Hände, wie auch mein Herz, das neben deinem sei in sichrer Hut.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2014 by Bertram Kottmann, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) misattributed to Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Louise Lalanne and by Marie Laurencin (1883 - 1956), "Le Présent", written 1908, appears in Il y a, in Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1909
This text was added to the website: 2014-08-16
Line count: 20
Word count: 83