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by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933)

Tu ne peux rien pour moi, puisque je...
Language: French (Français) 
Tu ne peux rien pour moi, puisque je t’aime,
Un tel amour rend l’autre démuni.
Garde ta force et ta tendresse même,
Sache être pauvre auprès de l’infini.

Je vois souvent ta peine sérieuse
Et la bonté de tes beaux yeux pensants,
Mais que me fait ton cœur reconnaissant ?
La gratitude est plus mystérieuse !

Elle est en moi à cause que tu es,
Non point toi seul, mais divers, ample, étrange ;
Reste indolent, oublieux, imparfait,
Je porte en moi le soleil qui te change…

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), no title, written 1924, appears in Poème de l'Amour, Paris, Éd. Arthème Fayard, first published 1924 [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 Robert Oboussier (1900 - 1957), "Tu ne peux rien pour moi", 1952? [ contralto and piano ], from Vie et mort, 12 poèmes de la Comtesse de Noailles pour contralto et piano, no. 2, Kassel & Basel, Bärenreiter [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2019-04-22
Line count: 12
Word count: 84

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