Don't give your heart to the roses along the road

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by (Jean René Benoît) Paul Mariéton (1862 - 1911)

Translation © by Dr Melissa Givens

Ne donne pas ton cœur aux roses du...

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ne donne pas ton cœur aux roses du chemin,
  Tu ne verrais pas les épines ;
Ne donne pas ton cœur aux fraîches églantines
  Vers qui déjà tu tends la main ;

Garde ta liberté, passe-toi d'un sourire,
  Vis plutôt tout seul, à l'écart --
On n'a point fait un pas qu'il est déjà trop tard
  Et qu'on est réduit à maudire !

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Text Authorship:

by (Jean René Benoît) Paul Mariéton (1862 - 1911), no title, appears in Souvenance, poésies, avec préface de Joséphin Soulary et lettre de Frédéric Mistral, no. 33, Paris, Alphone Lemerre, first published 1884 [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 Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Ne donne pas ton cœur", 1892, published 1892 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Dr Melissa Givens) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-31
Line count: 8
Word count: 59

Don't give your heart to the roses along...

Language: English after the French (Français)

Don't give your heart to the roses along the road
 You wouldn't see the thorns;
Don't give your heart to the fresh wild roses
 To which you already hold out your hand;

Keep your freedom, get away with a smile,
 Appear then, to be all alone, set apart —
You've barely moved and it's already too late
 Then you're reduced to cursing!

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Translation of title "Ne donne pas ton cœur" = "Don't give your heart"

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a text in French (Français) by (Jean René Benoît) Paul Mariéton (1862 - 1911), no title, appears in Souvenance, poésies, avec préface de Joséphin Soulary et lettre de Frédéric Mistral, no. 33, Paris, Alphone Lemerre, first published 1884
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This text was added to the website: 2020-07-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 62