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]
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 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]
See other settings of this text.
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 text: Juan Henríquez Concepción , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]
2. Le beau visage
Du fait de ta splendeur à eux inaccessible . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —
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
3. Iris d'Irlande
Ma pauvre aimée, mon pâle iris d'Irlande . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —
Authorship:
- by Isaac Félix Suarès, dit André Suarès (1868 - 1948), no title, appears in Rêves de l'ombre, Paris, Éd. Grasset, first published 1937
4. Chant pour la nuit
Lorsque je te perdrai un jour . . . . . . . . . .— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —
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
Go to the single-text view
Total word count: 80