You looked at me with all your soul | You looked at me with all your soul

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by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme.
Vous m'avez regardé longtemps comme un ciel bleu.
J'ai mis votre regard à l'ombre de [vos]¹ yeux...
Que ce regard était passionné et calme...

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• L. Boulanger • A. Jolivet • D. Milhaud

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¹ Boulanger: "mes"

Text Authorship:

by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 17, first published 1906 [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 Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Vous m'avez regardé", 1999 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 17 [sung text not yet checked]
by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme", 1914, published 1919 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Clairières dans le ciel, no. 8, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974), "Vous m’avez regardé", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Deux poésies de Francis Jammes, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme", op. 355 no. 17 (1956), published 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Vous m'avez regardé...", 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies choisies, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]

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ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "You looked at me with all your soul", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 32

You looked at me with all your soul

Language: English after the French (Français)

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You looked at me with all your soul. 
You looked at me for a long time, like a blue sky. 
I put your glance in the shadow of my eyes... 
How passionate and calm it was...

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a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 17, first published 1906
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This text was added to the website: 2004-01-27
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Word count: 36