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Deux Mélodies

by André Dulaurens (1873 - 1932)

1. Les Roses de Saadi  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
J'ai voulu ce matin te rapporter des roses :
Mais j'en avais tant pris dans mes ceintures closes,
Que les nœuds trop serrés n'ont pu les contenir.

Les nœuds ont éclaté. Les roses envolées
Dans le vent, à la mer s'en sont toutes allées.
Elles ont suivi l'eau pour ne plus revenir.

La vague en a paru rouge et comme enflammée.
Ce soir, [ma]1 robe encore en est tout embaumée...
[Respirez-en]2 sur moi l'odorant souvenir.

Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les Roses de Saâdi", written 1848, appears in Poésies inédites [1860]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.

1 Canal: "ta"
2 Canal, Covatti-Dussaut, Crickboom: "Respires-en"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 76
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