Messenger flower | I planted a drunken kiss on this flower for you

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by Henri François Alexandre Passerieu (d. 1937)

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

Fleur messagère

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

J'ai mis sur cette fleur un baiser plein d'ivresse,
Pour vous qui m'avez pris tout mon coeur en un jour.
Puissiez-vous deviner la discrète caresse
De cet ardent baiser d'amour!

J'ai raconté tout bas à la fleur palpitante
La joie et les douleurs qui me viennent de vous
Puissiez-vous retrouver dans son odeur troublante
Ces aveux sincères et fous!

Enfin dans cette fleur j'ai mis toute mon âme,
Comme si je croyais au langage des fleurs,
Et j'ai laissé tomber, brûlants comme la flamme,
Dans son calice, tous mes pleurs!

Text Authorship:

by Henri François Alexandre Passerieu (d. 1937) [author's text not yet checked 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 Bouval (1867 - 1914), "Fleur messagère", published 1904 [medium voice and piano], Éd. Oliver Ditson [
text verified 1 time
]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "Messenger flower", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 90

Messenger flower

Language: English after the French (Français)

I planted a drunken kiss on this flower for you, 
who stole my heart away in a single day. 
May you guess the discrete caress 
of this ardent love kiss! 

I whispered to the palpitating flower
all the joy and pain you give me. 
May you will find in its disturbing scent
these sincere, crazy confessions!

Finally, I put my whole soul into this flower, 
as if I believed in the language of the flowers,
and I dropped all my tears, burning like flames,
into its calyx!

Text Authorship:

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a text in French (Français) by Henri François Alexandre Passerieu (d. 1937)
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This text was added to the website: 2004-04-11
Line count: 12
Word count: 87