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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

L'Espoir
Language: French (Français) 
Je voudrais aimer autrement ;
Hélas ! je voudrais être heureuse !
Pour moi l’amour est un tourment ;
La tendresse m’est douloureuse.
Ah ! que je voudrais être heureuse !
Oue je voudrais être autrement !

Vous dites que je changerai ;
Comme vous je le crois possible.
Mon cœur ne sera plus sensible ;
Je l’espère, car je mourrai.
Oui ! Si la mort peut l’impossible,
Vous dites vrai, je changerai !

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


Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "L'Espoir", first published 1830 [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 Kelterborn (1891 - 1933), "L'Espoir", 1916
        Score: Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore [external link]  [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gabrielle Lange-Clairny , "L'Espoir", published 1921 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Édition J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-05-04
Line count: 12
Word count: 63

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