Dernier vœu | Voilà longtemps que je vous aime

by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)

Dernier vœu

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Voilà longtemps que je vous aime :
-- L'aveu remonte à dix-huit ans ! --
Vous êtes rose, je suis blême ;
J'ai les hivers, vous les printemps.

Des lilas blancs de cimetière
Près de mes tempes ont fleuri ;
J'aurai bientôt la touffe entière
Pour ombrager mon front flétri.

Mon soleil pâli qui décline
Va disparaître à l'horizon,
Et sur la funèbre colline
Je vois ma dernière maison.

Oh ! que de votre lèvre il tombe
Sur ma lèvre un tardif baiser,
Pour que je puisse dans ma tombe,
Le cœur tranquille, reposer !

Text Authorship:

by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Dernier vœu", written 1866?, appears in Émaux et Camées, Paris, Éd. Charpentier & Cie, first published 1872 [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 Péricles Aramis (1854 - 1932), "Dernier vœu", published 1903 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Auguin , "Dernier vœu", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], Paris, A. Doret & A. Gruny [sung text not yet checked]
by Francisco Chiaffitelli (1881 - 1954), "Dernier vœu" [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 1, Bruxelles: Maison Beethoven, G. Oertel [sung text not yet checked]
by Auguste Charles Cœdès (1840 - 1884), "Dernier vœu", published 1875 [ soprano and piano ], from Soirées d'automne, no. 5, Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Delafosse (1874 - 1951), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour une ou deux voix et piano, no. 5, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "Dernier vœu", published 1951 [ voice and piano ], from Quelques émaux et camées, no. 6, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Rolande Falcinelli (1920 - 2006), "Dernier vœu", op. 5 no. 1, published 1939 [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
by Edouard Flament (1880 - 1958), "Dernier vœu", op. 32 (Huit Mélodies) no. 4 (1918) [ baritone or bass and piano ], Paris, La Parisienne G. Lorette [sung text not yet checked]
by Luís de Freitas Branco (1890 - 1955), "Dernier vœu", 1909, published 1997 [ medium voice and piano ], from Canções Francesas, no. 1, Lisboa, Éd. Musicoteca [sung text not yet checked]
by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Dernier vœu", published 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, deuxième recueil, no. 7, Éd. Société Musicale G. Astruc [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean-Marie Hamonic (1898 - 1966), "Dernier vœu" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Mélodies pour piano et chant, no. 2, Paris, Éd. A. Joanin & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Émilienne Machabey-Ganeval (b. 1896), "Dernier vœu", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Eugène Marty (1860 - 1908), "Dernier vœu", published 1889 [ medium voice and piano ], from 4 Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Bruneau [sung text not yet checked]
by Emmanuel Ritz (d. 1958), "Dernier vœu", published 1912 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, A. Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882 - 1955), "Dernier vœu", published 1920, copyright © 1920 [ voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 6, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Dernier vœu", 1880, published 1880 [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Six mélodies et une Havanaise variée à 2 voix, no. 2, Paris, Éd "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2013-04-12
Line count: 16
Word count: 87