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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

À vous ces vers de par la grâce...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
À vous ces vers de par la grâce consolante
De vos grands yeux où rit et pleure un rêve doux,
De par votre âme pure et toute bonne, à vous
Ces vers du fond de ma détresse violente.

C'est qu'hélas ! le hideux cauchemar qui me hante
N'a pas de trêve et va furieux, fou, jaloux,
Se multipliant comme un cortège de loups
Et se pendant après mon sort qu'il ensanglante !

[Oh !]1 je souffre, je souffre affreusement, si bien
Que le gémissement premier du premier homme
Chassé d'Éden n'est qu'une églogue [au prix]2 du mien !

Et les soucis que vous pouvez avoir sont comme
Des hirondelles sur un ciel d'après-midi,
— Chère, — par un beau jour de septembre attiédi.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Vierne 

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Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Poëmes saturniens, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1866, pages 25-26.

1 Vierne: "Et"
2 Vierne: "auprès"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "À une femme", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in 1. Melancholia, no. 7, Paris, Édition Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Dinu Lipatti (1917 - 1950), "À une femme", op. 9 no. 1 (1941) [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Mélodies sur des Poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 1, note: published in Romania as Cinci Lieduri pe Versuri de Verlaine. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (1861 - 1935), "À une femme" [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Youssef Khan Nazare-Aga, dit Kyna (1870 - 1942), "À vous ces vers", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], from Deux sonnets, no. 2, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Otlet , "À une femme", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], from Melancholia, no. 6, Bosworth et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937), "À une femme", op. 38 no. 5 (1916), published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], from Spleens et Détresses, no. 5, Salabert [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Corinne Orde) , "To a woman", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Bergen Weeks Applegate) , "To a Woman", appears in Poems Saturnine, in 1. Melancholia, no. 7


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 14
Word count: 122

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