Je n'ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville, Notre blanche maison, petite mais tranquille, Sa Pomone de plâtre et sa vieille Vénus Dans un bosquet chétif cachant leurs membres nus ; — Et le soleil, le soir, ruisselant et superbe, Qui, derrière la vitre où se brisait sa gerbe, Semblait, grand œil ouvert dans le ciel curieux, Contempler nos dîners longs et silencieux, [Et versait]1 largement ses beaux reflets de cierge Sur la nappe frugale et les rideaux de serge.
Quatre mélodies
by Pierre Capdevielle (1906 - 1969)
1. Je n'ai pas oublié [sung text not yet checked]
Language: French (Français)
Text Authorship:
- by Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867), no title, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 2. Tableaux parisiens, no. 99, appears in Les Fleurs du mal, in 1. Spleen et Idéal, no. 70, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, first published 1857
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Juan Henríquez Concepción) , "Yo no he olvidado", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Confirmed with Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857, in Spleen et Idéal, pages 162-163. Note: this was number 70 under Spleen et Idéal in the first edition of Les Fleurs du mal but number 99 or 123 under Tableaux parisiens in subsequent editions.
1 1861 and 1868 editions: "Répandant"Research team for this page: Juan Henríquez Concepción , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
2. Le beau visage
Language: French (Français)
Du fait de ta splendeur à eux inaccessible
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Drouot (1886 - 1915), "Le beau visage", appears in La grappe de raisin, in Petite suite, no. 1, Paris, Éd. de la Phalange, first published 1908
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3. Iris d'Irlande
Language: French (Français)
Ma pauvre aimée, mon pâle iris d'Irlande
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Text Authorship:
- by Isaac Félix Suarès (1868 - 1948), no title, appears in Rêves de l'ombre, Paris, Éd. Grasset, first published 1937
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4. Chant pour la nuit
Language: French (Français)
Lorsque je te perdrai un jour
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Text Authorship:
- by Lou Albert-Lasard (1885 - 1969), Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1938
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926), "Schlaflied", written 1908, appears in Der neuen Gedichte anderer Teil
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