Flowers | Flowers promised, flowers held in your arms

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by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)

Translation © by Laura Claycomb

Fleurs

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Fleurs promises, fleurs tenues dans tes bras,
Fleurs sorties des parenthèses d'un pas,
Qui t'apportait ces fleurs l'hiver 
Saupoudrées du sable des mers ?

Sable de tes baisers, fleurs des amours fanées
Les beaux yeux sont de cendre et dans la cheminée
Un coeur en rubanné de plaintes
Brûle avec ses images saintes.

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Text Authorship:

by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), "Fleurs", written 1939, appears in Fiançailles pour rire, no. 22, Paris, Éd. NRF Gallimard, first published 1939 [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Fleurs", FP 101 no. 6 (1939), first performed 1942 [ soprano and piano ], from Fiançailles pour rire, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Claycomb) , "Flowers", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Word count: 52

Flowers

Language: English after the French (Français)

Flowers promised, flowers held in your arms,
Flowers issued from the parenthesis of a step,
Who brought you these flowers in winter
Powdered with the sand of the seas?
Sand of your kisses, flowers of withered loves,
Beautiful eyes are made of ashes and in the chimney
a heart beribboned in complaints
burns with its sainted images.
Flowers promised, flowers held in your arms,
Who brought you these flowers in winter
Powdered with the sand of the seas?

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Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by Laura Claycomb, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), "Fleurs", written 1939, appears in Fiançailles pour rire, no. 22, Paris, Éd. NRF Gallimard, first published 1939
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This text was added to the website: 2012-09-24
Line count: 11
Word count: 78