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Mes désirs ne sont point lassés. Donne-moi tes baisers, maîtresse ! Je n'en aurai jamais assez. Je veux boire jusqu'à l'ivresse. Donne-moi tes baisers ! Encor ! Je veux boire à ta lèvre rose. Tu me dis, et j'en suis d'accord, Que c'est toujours la même chose ; Mais c'est toujours nouveau pourtant ! Je suis un buveur peu sévère, De ceux qui boivent tant et tant Qu'ils se noient au fond de leur verre. Folle, il faut te griser aussi. Laisse-toi donc faire, et sois ivre ! Donne tes baisers, comme si Tu n'avais plus qu'un jour à vivre.
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Confirmed with Les caresses, Nouvelle Édition, Paris, G. Charpentier, [no date], pages 114-115.
Text Authorship:
- by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), no title, written 1877, appears in Les Caresses, in 2. Thermidor, no. 21, Paris, Éd. M. Dreyfous, first published 1882 [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 Vierne (1870 - 1937), "Donne-moi tes baisers", op. 48, Heft 2 (Thermidor) no. 1 (1924), published 1927 [ high voice and piano ], from Le poème de l'amour, no. 4, Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "Give me your kisses", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Francesco Campanella) , "Dammi i tuoi baci", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Corinne Orde
This text was added to the website: 2007-11-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 94
My desires are not sated. Give me your kisses, mistress! I shall never have enough of them. I want to drink myself to drunkenness. Give me your kisses! Again! I want to drink from your rosy lip. You tell me, and I agree, That it is always the same thing; Yet it is always new! I am not strict with myself as a drinker: One of those who drink so much That they drown in the bottom of their glass. Madwoman, you too must become intoxicated. Let yourself go, and be drunk! Give your kisses as if You only had one day to live.
Text Authorship:
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Jean Richepin (1849 - 1926), no title, written 1877, appears in Les Caresses, in 2. Thermidor, no. 21, Paris, Éd. M. Dreyfous, first published 1882
This text was added to the website: 2007-11-20
Line count: 16
Word count: 104