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Douze mélodies, 2e série

by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917)

23. J'ai dit à mon cœur  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
J'ai dit à mon cœur, à mon faible cœur :
N'est-ce point assez d'aimer sa maîtresse ?
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse,
C'est perdre en désirs le temps du bonheur ?

Il m'a répondu : Ce n'est point assez,
Ce n'est point assez d'aimer sa maîtresse ;
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse
Nous rend doux et chers les plaisirs passés ?

J'ai dit à mon cœur, à mon faible cœur :
N'est-ce point assez de tant de tristesse ?
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse,
C'est à chaque pas trouver la douleur ?

Il m'a répondu : Ce n'est point assez
Ce n'est point assez de tant de tristesse ;
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse
Nous rend doux et chers les chagrins passés ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson : J'ai dit à mon cœur...", appears in Premières poésies

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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

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

25. Dernier vœu  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Oh ! quand la mort, que rien ne saurait apaiser,
Nous prendra tous les deux dans un dernier baiser
Et jettera sur nous le manteau de ses ailes,
Puissions-nous réposer sous deux pierres jumelles !
Puissent les fleurs de rose aux parfums embaumés
Sortir de nos deux corps qui se sont tant aimés,
Et nos âmes fleurir ensemble, et, sur nos tombes
Se [becqueter]1 longtemps d'amoureuses colombes !

Text Authorship:

  • by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Oh ! quand la mort", written 1845, appears in Les Stalactites, no. 5, first published 1846

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

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1 Debussy: "regarder"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

26. Les papillons  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Les papillons couleur de neige
Volent par essaims sur la mer ;
Beaux papillons blancs, quand pourrai-je
Prendre le bleu chemin de l'air ?

Savez-vous, ô belle des belles,
Ma bayadère aux yeux de jais,
S'ils me [pouvaient]1 prêter leurs ailes,
Dites, savez-vous où j'irais ?

Sans prendre un seul baiser aux roses,
À travers vallons et forêts,
J'irais à vos lèvres mi-closes,
Fleur de mon âme, et j'y mourrais.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), title 1: "Les papillons", title 2: "Pantoum", written 1837, appears in La Comédie de la Mort, first published 1838

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Motýli"
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Note: this poem was titled "Pantoum" in L'Eldorado and Fortunio, and titled "Les papillons" in other editions.

1 in some settings, "voulaient"; we will add further information when we obtain it.

Researcher for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

27. Premier amour

Language: French (Français) 
Dans le parfum troublant des thyms
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Moreau

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28. Méditation

Language: French (Français) 
Déjà le grand soleil s'abaisse sur la grève
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917)

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29. Inventaire

Language: French (Français) 
L'heure suit l'heure... J'ai vieilli ...
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917)

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30. Sonnet d'Octobre

Language: French (Français) 
Hélas qu'elle est donc loin la saison des lilas
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917)

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31. Renouveau

Language: French (Français) 
Printemps est de retour
 . . . . . . . . . .

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Text Authorship:

  • by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917)

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32. Pour la jolie fiancée
 (Sung text)

Language: French (Français) 
Quand elle te dira d’une voix inquiéte 
m’aime t-il bien, 
dis moi gentille pâquerette 
Oracle des amours
Si sa main tremble alors
Si son coeur bat plus vite 
En effeuillant ta fleur 
responds lui Marguerite
Il t’aimera toujours

Text Authorship:

  • by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Pour la jolie fiancée"

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

  • ENG English (Stephen Jackson) , "For the pretty bride", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Notes (provided by Stephen Jackson):
The text is provided with almost no punctuation in the score.
Line 3: "pâquerette" appears without the accent circonflexe in the Bibliothèque nationale de France edition of the score.
Line 8: "Marguerite" - Also a common nickname for "daisy", here anthropomorphized.

Researcher for this page: Stephen Jackson

33. L'heure exquise  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
La lune blanche 
Luit dans les bois ;
De chaque branche 
Part une voix 
Sous la ramée...

Ô bien aimée.

L'étang reflète,
Profond miroir,
La silhouette
Du saule noir
Où le vent pleure...

Rêvons, c'est l'heure.

Un vaste et tendre
Apaisement
Semble descendre
Du firmament
Que l'astre irise...

C'est l'heure exquise.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 6, first published 1870

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
  • ENG English (Grant A. Lewis) , "The white moon", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "The Moment of Ecstasy", written 2002, first published 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FIN Finnish (Suomi) (Erkki Pullinen) , "Kalpea kuu ", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Der weiße Mond", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Elaine Marie Ortiz-Arandes) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi) , no title
  • GRE Greek (Ελληνικά) [singable] (Christakis Poumbouris) , "Λευκή σελήνη", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Árpád Tóth) , "La lune blanche"
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Dezső Kosztolányi) , "Fehér hold"
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "La luna bianca", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "La hora exquisita", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Alberto Bonati) , "La luna blanca", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

34. Soleils couchants  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Une aube affaiblie
Verse par les champs
La mélancolie
Des soleils couchants.
La mélancolie
Berce de doux chants
Mon cœur qui s'oublie
Aux soleils couchants.
Et d'étranges rêves,
Comme des soleils
Couchants sur les grèves,
Fantômes vermeils,
Défilent sans trêves, 
Défilent, pareils
À des grands soleils
Couchants sur les grèves.

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Soleils couchants", written 1866, appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 3. Paysages tristes, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (David Wyatt) (Emily Wyatt) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "Setting Suns", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 3. Somber Landscapes, no. 1
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Untergehende Sonnen", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poèmes Saturniens, troisième édition, Paris, Léon Vanier, 1894, pages 43-44.


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Ted Perry
Total word count: 395
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