LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,159)
  • Text Authors (19,577)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,115)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor

La bourse d'or
Language: French (Français) 
Derrière le treillage de ta croisée
A rosace d'Orient,
Je t'ai vue occupée à broder une étoffe
De soie et de velours,
Mais tu es partie en riant
Quand j'ai voulu, comme Hafiz,
te dire en lentes strophes
Combien mon âme était martyrisée
D'amour.

Derrière le treillage de ta croisée,
Petite chérie, 
Je t'ai vue occupée à broder une étoffe,
Et tu as un instant levé de ta broderie
Tes yeux longs et veloutés,
Quand je t'ai dit comme Hafiz, en savantes strophes,
Combien mon âme était grisée
De ta beauté.

Mais quand du dehors
Je suis entré tout à coup,
Et que j'ai mis ma bourse d'or
Dans ta main frêle,
Tu n'as pas attendu mes paroles d'amour
Pour quitter ta broderie de velours,
Et tu as vite jeté tes bras fins à mon cou
Pour me donner la rose peinte de tes lèvres.

Please note: this text, provided here for educational and research use, is in the public domain in Canada and the U.S., but it may still be copyright in other legal jurisdictions. The LiederNet Archive makes no guarantee that the above text is public domain in your country. Please consult your country's copyright statutes or a qualified IP attorney to verify whether a certain text is in the public domain in your country or if downloading or distributing a copy constitutes fair use. The LiederNet Archive assumes no legal responsibility or liability for the copyright compliance of third parties.

Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur Justin Léon Leclère (1874 - 1966), as Tristan Klingsor, "La bourse d'or", written 1903, appears in Schéhérazade, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1903 [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 Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "La bourse d'or", published 1904 [ medium voice and piano ], from Croquis d'Orient, no. 7, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-07-10
Line count: 25
Word count: 145

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris