by Michel St. Pierre (1810 - 1852)
Couplet
Language: French (Français)
Avec plus de timidité, De douceur dans le caractère, Et le regard moins effronté, Peut-être Elina pourrait plaire: Mais loin d'avoir les dons heureux Qui font rechercher une belle, Elina n'allume de feux - Que pour lui brûler la cervelle.
Confirmed with Creole echoes: the francophone poetry of nineteenth-century Louisiana, trans. Norman R. Shapiro, ed. M. Lynn Weiss, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004, page 192.
Text Authorship:
- by Michel St. Pierre (1810 - 1852), "Couplet", subtitle: "Contre une demoiselle sur qui on avait tiré un coup de pistolet" [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 John L. Cornelius II (b. 1966), "Couplet", published 2006, copyright © 2006 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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