Le matin de notre première rencontre, c'est la main droite de ma bien-aimée qui m'a envoyé, dans un salut gracieux, son cœur et sa bouche. Le soir de notre première rencontre, c'est la main gauche de ma bien-aimée qui a ouvert sa robe, afin que mes baisers se posent sur ses seins. Aussi, et pour tout ce que je leur dois encore, chanterai-je les mains de ma bien-aimée... Douleur ! ô douleur ! pourquoi te réveilles-tu ? Amis, pardonnez-moi de renoncer à écrire ce poème ! J'avais oublié que ma bien-aimée est partie, et qu'il me serait impossible de me rappeler autre chose que ses mains sur ses yeux en larmes.
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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le Jardin des Caresses, 73e édition, Paris : L'édition d'art H. Piazza, 1921, p.131
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Ses mains", written 1911?, appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 136, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Piero Coppola (1888 - 1971), "Ses mains", published 1924 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Dix Poèmes Arabes extraits du Jardin des caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 5, Paris : Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alfred Cozanet (1870 - 1938), as Jean d'Udine, "Les mains", published 1929 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept poèmes arabes extraits du Jardin des Caresses de Franz Toussaint, no. 6, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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