I will adorn your arms with bracelets

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by Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Je parerai tes bras de bracelets

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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Je parerai tes bras de bracelets,
ton cou d'un collier,
tes lèvres de mes lèvres,

je scellerai ton rêve de ma fièvre,
ta gaieté l'encouragerai
de toute mon âme grisée,

tes cheveux les couronnerai
des acclamations qu'arracherai
aux trouvères surpassés.

Puis te demanderai pardon
d'avoir si mal chanté le don
parfumé de ta grâce souveraine
et l'assentiment de ta beauté reine.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Gustave Kahn, Domaine de fée, Brussels, Société Nouvelle, 1895, page 11.

Text Authorship:

by Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936), no title [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 Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Je parerai tes bras", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies [1921], no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Guillermo Uribe Holguín (1880 - 1971), "Je parerais tes bras", op. 4 (Seis canciones) no. 6 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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

ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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I will adorn your arms with bracelets

Language: English after the French (Français)

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I will adorn your arms with bracelets,
your neck with a necklace,
your lips with my lips,

I will seal your dream with my fever,
your gaiety I will encourage 
with all my tipsy soul,

your tresses I will crown 
with acclamations I will wrest
from superseded trouvères.

Then I will beg your pardon 
for having so poorly sung the fragrant 
gift of your sovereign grace
and the assent of your queenly beauty.

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Translations of titles:
"Je parerais tes bras" = "I would adorn your arms"
"Je parerai tes bras" = "I will adorn your arms"

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a text in French (Français) by Gustave Kahn (1859 - 1936), no title
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-30
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