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Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses Ne reviendra plus à ce printemps-ci ; Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses Est passés, le temps des œillets aussi. Le vent a changé, les cieux sont moroses, Et nous n'irons plus courir, et cueillir Les lilas en fleur et les belles roses ; Le printemps est triste et ne peut fleurir. Oh ! joyeux et doux printemps de l'année, Qui vins, l'an passé, nous ensoleiller, Notre fleur d'amour est si bien fanée, Las ! que ton baiser ne peut l'éveiller! Et toi, que fais-tu ? pas de fleurs écloses, Point de gai soleil ni d'ombrages frais ; Le temps des lilas et le temps des roses Avec notre amour est mort à jamais.
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Text Authorship:
- by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 2. La mort de l'amour, no. 38, first published 1876 [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 Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Amour évanoui", 1883, published 1921? [ high voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Isaac de Camondo (1851 - 1911), "Roses fanées" [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "Le temps des lilas" [sung text checked 1 time]
The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
- by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La mort de l'amour", op. 19 no. 2 (1887), published 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 2
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- CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Il tempo dei lillà e il tempo delle rose", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- NOR Norwegian (Bokmål) (Marianne Beate Kielland) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- RUS Russian (Русский) (Aliona Rostovskaya) , copyright © 2016, (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: 16
Word count: 120
Die Zeit des Flieders und die Zeit der Rosen - in diesem Lenz wird sie nicht wiederkehren; Die Zeit des Flieders und die Zeit der Rosen ist vorbei, wie auch die Zeit der Nelken. Gedreht hat sich der Wind, der Himmel sich verdüstert; wir werden nicht mehr eilen, den Flieder zu brechen und die schönen Rosen; voll Trauer ist der Lenz, kann nicht erblühen. Ach, heitere und süße Frühlingszeit, vergang’nes Jahr kamst du mit deiner Sonne; doch so verblüht ist nun die Blume unsrer Liebe, dass selbst dein Kuss sie nicht mehr neu beleben kann. Und was machst d u ? Kein Knospen und kein Blühen mehr, noch heitrer Sonnenschein und kühler Schatten; die Zeit des Flieders und die Zeit der Rosen - sie und unsre Liebe sind für immer tot.
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Translation of title "Le temps des lilas" = "Die Zeit des Flieders"Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2015 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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- a text in French (Français) by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 2. La mort de l'amour, no. 38, first published 1876
This text was added to the website: 2015-07-05
Line count: 16
Word count: 128