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Sapho

Opera by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)

Aimons mes sœurs
 (Sung text for setting by C. Gounod)
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Language: French (Français) 
Ma vie en ce séjour
Est un ruisseau limpide
Qui coule sur la mousse
Et reflète le jour.
Aimons mes soeurs, aimons, car la vie est rapide
Et le temps est perdu qui passe sans amour.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889) [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):

Set by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), CG 1b (1851), first performed 1851 [ voice and piano ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Ô ma lyre
 (Sung text for setting by C. Gounod)
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Language: French (Français) 
O ma lyre immortelle,
Qui dans les tristes jours
A tous mes maux fidèle
Les consolait toujours!

En vain ton doux murmure
Veut m'aider à souffrir,
Non, tu ne peux guérir
Ma dernière blessure;
Ma blessure est au coeur
Seul le trépas peut finir ma douleur.

Adieu, flambeau du monde,
Descends au sein des flots,
Moi, je descends sous l'onde,
Dans l'Eternel repos.

Le jour qui doit éclore,
Phaon, luira pour toi,
Mais, sans penser à moi,
Tu reverras l'aurore.
Ouvre-toi gouffre amer
Je vais dormir pour toujours dans la mer.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889) [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):

Set by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), 1850, first performed 1851 [ medium voice and piano ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

Chanson de pâtre
 (Sung text for setting by C. Gounod)
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Language: French (Français) 
Broutez le thym, broutez mes chèvres,
Le serpolet avec le thym, avec le thym.
La blonde Aglaé de ses lèvres,
Toucha les miennes ce matin,
Et j'attends que Vénus se lève
Pour la rejoindre sur la grève.
Brille enfin étoile d'amour!
Et dans les cieux, éteins le jour.
Broutez, broutez le thym, broutez mes chèvres,
Broutez.

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Augier (1820 - 1889)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

Set by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), CG 1c (1850), published 1874, first performed 1851 [ high voice and piano ]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 183
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