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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Laure offrait à genoux
Language: French (Français) 
Laure offrait à genoux,
Sa prière à Marie,
Et, dans sa rêverie,
Demandait un époux ;
En secret l'innocence
Lui porte chaque jour
Sa première espérance
Et son premier amour.

"Au nom de vos douleurs,
Que mon ami, dit-elle,
À son serment fidèle,
Vienne essuyer mes pleurs !
"Je lui garde en mon âme
Un souvenir bien doux,
Et pur comme la flamme
Dont je brûle pour vous.

"Mon ami pour la foi
Combat aux champs d'Asie ;
Ô divine Marie,
Qu'il soit vainqueur pour moi !...
Si jamais l'hyménée
Unit notre avenir,
De sa main couronnée,
Je viendrai vous bénir."

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Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.


Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "La Prière" [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 Françoise-Joséphine Anselme Baptiste (1790 - 1857), as Joséphine Baptiste Desmousseaux, "Prière à Marie", published 1815, Paris : Chez l’Éditeur, au Magasin de Musique de Madame Benoist [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Constance Duteil , "Prière à Marie", published 1819, Paris : Ignace Pleyel et fils aîné [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Franz Hünten (1793 - 1878), "La Prière", c1850 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Flore Joséphine Millin , "La Prière", published 1834, Paris : Schonenberg [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Toussaint Eugène Ernest Mocker (1811 - 1895), "Clémentine à Marie", 1835? [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-06-01
Line count: 24
Word count: 97

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