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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Ma demeure est haute
Language: French (Français) 
Ma demeure est haute,
Donnant sur les cieux ;
La lune en est l'hôte,
Pâle et sérieux :
En bas que l'on sonne,
Qu'importe aujourd'hui ?
Ce n'est plus personne,
Quand ce n'est pas lui !
  
Aux autres cachée,
Je brode mes fleurs ;
Sans être fâchée,
Mon âme est en pleurs :
Le ciel bleu sans voiles,
Je le vois d'ici ;
Je vois les étoiles :
Mais l'orage aussi !
  
Vis-à-vis la mienne
Une chaise attend :
Elle fut la sienne,
La nôtre un instant :
D'un ruban signée,
Cette chaise est là,
Toute résignée,
Comme me voilà !

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Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.

Note: this poem appeared first with the music of Pauline Duchambge in 1841 under the title "Les Deux Chaises" and was titled "Ma Chambre" in the 1843 publication in Bouquets et prières.


Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), title 1: "Ma Chambre", title 2: "Les Deux Chaises", written 1841, appears in Bouquets et prières, first published 1841 [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-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "Ma chambre", published 1928 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons d'Enfance et de Jeunesse, no. 9, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel
        Score: IMSLP [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Pauline Duchambge (1776 - 1858), "Les Deux Chaises", published [1841] [ high voice and piano ], from Album Musical (pour l'année 1841). 8 romances et chansonnettes, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Chabal & Grus
        Score: Gallica [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles-Henri Maréchal (1842 - 1924), "Ma Chambre", published 1868, Paris : E. Gallet [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Claude Vercher (1955 - 2021), "Ma Chambre", 2020 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-05-08
Line count: 24
Word count: 89

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