by André Chénier (1762 - 1794)
Je veux que ton retour
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Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Je veux que ton retour Te paraisse bien lent ; je veux que nuit et jour Tu m’aimes. (Nuit et jour, hélas ! je me tourmente.) Présente au milieu d’eux, sois seule, sois absente ; Dors en pensant à moi; rêve-moi près de toi ; Ne vois que moi sans cesse, et sois toute avec moi.
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View text with all available footnotesConfirmed with Œuvres poétiques de André Chénier, Paris, Garnier Frères, 1878, Tome premier (Volume 1), page 170. Note: this is an excerpt from the third elegy, which begins "O lignes que sa main, que son cœur a tracées!" This selection has been quoted as epigraphs in books by Victor Hugo and Pierre L. C. Dumont, including the same changes employed by Cui; one of those volumes might have been his source.
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- by André Chénier (1762 - 1794), no title, appears in Élégies, no. 3 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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