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.
Text Authorship:
- by André Chénier (1762 - 1794), no title, appears in Élégies, no. 3 [author's text checked 1 time 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 César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Adieu", op. 32 (Sept Mélodies) no. 4, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Hercule Gilles de Fontenailles (1858 - 1922), "Absence", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Hachette & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Séparation" [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1er volume, no. 16, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939), "Séparation", op. 28 (1902), note: could be the wrong text for this title [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Tournemire (1870 - 1939), "Mélodie", 1903 [sung text not yet checked]
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