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Ne me console pas. Cela est inutile. Si mes rêves qui étaient ma seule fortune quittent mon seuil obscur où s'accroupit la brume : je saurai me résoudre et saurai ne rien dire. Un jour, tout simplement (ne me console pas !) devant ma porte ensoleillée je m'étendrai. On dira aux enfants qu'il faut parler plus bas. Et, délaissé de ma tristesse, je mourrai.
Confirmed with Francis Jammes, Clairières dans le Ciel 1902-1906, Paris: Mercure de France, 1908, Page 112.
Text Authorship:
- by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Ne me console pas", written 1906?, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Poésies diverses, no. 5 [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), "Ne me console pas", <<2022 [ vocal duet for soprano and tenor with piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Collet (1885 - 1951), "Ne me console pas", 1909-1910, published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Francis Jammes, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Dupuis (1877 - 1967), "Ne me console pas", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, no. 11, Bruxelles (Brussels), Éd. J.B. Katto, Antoine Ysaye & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974), "Ne me console pas", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Deux poésies de Francis Jammes, no. 1, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Ne me console pas", op. 1 (Poèmes de Francis Jammes), Heft 2 no. 16 (1910-1912) [ voice and piano ], lost [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Do not console me", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website: 2020-10-10
Line count: 8
Word count: 63
Do not console me. There is no use. If the dreams that were my only fortune depart my dark threshold where the mist crouches, I'll be able to reconcile myself and say nothing. One day, quite simply (do not console me!) I will lay myself out before my sunlit door. Children will be told to speak more softly. And, abandoned by my sadness, I will die.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), "Ne me console pas", written 1906?, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Poésies diverses, no. 5
This text was added to the website: 2025-09-22
Line count: 8
Word count: 66