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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Je porte sur moi ton image
Language: French (Français) 
Je porte sur moi ton image
Ainsi qu’autrefois le Roi Mage
Portait les parfums précieux,
L’encens, la myrrhe, la cinname
Et je sens brûler dans mon âme
Le désir infini des cieux.

Un rêve divin m’environne :
Ta beauté sous mes yeux rayonne
Comme le seuil d’un Paradis.
Devant elle mon genou plie
Et, tremblant, en elle j’oublie
Les jours malheureux et maudits.

C’est bien toi, c’est ta noble face,
Tes yeux dont le regard efface
Tout rayon et toute clarté !
C’est toi, ma lumière et ma vie,
La splendeur qu’avait poursuivie
Mon rêve toujours indompté

Salut, ô brune chevelure,
Chères lèvres dont la brûlure
Descend jusqu’au fond de mon coeur,
Poitrine auguste dont l’haleine
Verse, comme une couple pleine,
Dans ma gorge un poison vainqueur !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), no title, written 1880-82, appears in Le Pays de Roses, poésies nouvelles 1880-1882, in 2. Amour d'hiver, in 1. I. , no. 8, Paris, Éd. G. Charpentier, 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 Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "Adoration", 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Amour d'hiver, no. 3, Éd. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by André Messager (1853 - 1929), "Je porte sur moi ton image", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], from Amour d'hiver, poésies de Armand Silvestre, no. 2, Paris, Adolph Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Héctor Panizza (1875 - 1967), "Je porte sur moi ton image", published 1915, from Deux Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel & Cie.  [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-01-13
Line count: 24
Word count: 125

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