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Six mélodies

by Léon Delafosse (1874 - 1951)

1. Je ne veux pas d'autres choses  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
[ ... ]

Je ne veux pas d'autres choses 
Que ton sourire et ta voix, 
De l'air, de l'ombre et des roses, 
Et des rayons dans les bois ! 

Je ne veux, moi qui me voile 
Dans la joie ou la douleur, 
Que ton regard, mon étoile ! 
Que ton haleine, ô ma fleur ! 

Sous ta paupière vermeille 
Qu'inonde un céleste jour, 
Tout un univers sommeille. 
Je n'y cherche que l'amour ! 

[ ... ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, appears in Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 24, first published 1840

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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2. La nuit, plus tendre que l'amour

Language: French (Français) 
La nuit, plus tendre que l'amour
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by (Henry) Henri Spiess (1876 - 1940)

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3. La fleur inconnue

Language: French (Français) 
Fleur inconnue au manteau noir
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by J. Frizel

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4. Comment, disaient‑ils  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Comment, disaient-ils,
Avec nos nacelles,
Fuir les alguazils ?
-- Ramez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,
Oublier querelles,
Misère et périls ?
-- Dormez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,
Enchanter les belles
Sans philtres subtils ?
-- Aimez, disaient-elles.

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Autre guitare", appears in Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 23, first published 1838

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "“怎麼辦?” 他們問", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "How then, asked he", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "How, asked the men", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , ""O how," murmured he"
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] ((Johann) Philipp Kaufmann)

Confirmed with Oeuvres de Victor Hugo: Les rayons et les ombres, Volume 4, Paris, V. A. Houssiaux, ed., Hébert et Cie, 1875, pages 325-326.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

5. Je t'aime ainsi  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
[ ... ]

Je t'aime ainsi,
Sans souci
De l'heure disparue, et du mal et des peines,

Que par nos doigts
Plus étroits
Notre amour se pénètre au plus fin de nos veines.

Restons perdus,
Suspendus
Au-dessus de la terre ironique et brutale,

Sans rien savoir,
Sans rien voir,
Révélés à la Vie Unique et Musicale...

Ne parle pas,
Ou si bas
Que ce soit un secret vaporeux qu'on devine,

Et qui se meurt
Dans le cœur
Comme une haleine d'ange en un duvet d'hermine.

Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), "Musique confidentielle", written 1893, appears in Au jardin de l'Infante, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897

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6. Le divin oiseau

Language: French (Français) 
Écho lointain qui me charme et m'enivre
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Text Authorship:

  • by J. Frizel

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Total word count: 519
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