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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Myrto ne sait pas de chansons
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons :
Les filles la trouvent sauvage.
-- On la fuit, -- et les beaux garçons
Ne l'embrassent pas au passage.

Elle s'en va loin des maisons,
S'asseoir près de la mer immense.
Nul ne regrette son absence :
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.

Noël vient, vêtu de glaçons :
On danse autour du feu qui brille ;
-- Nul n'invite la pauvre fille --
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.

Mais elle sait le chant austère
Qui vibre au cœur silencieux,
Et que n'écoute point la terre :
-- Myrto sait la chanson des cieux ?

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Delibes 

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Confirmed with Poésies de Armand Silvestre, 1866-1872, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1880, page 68.


Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), no title, appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, in Myrto, no. 3, first published 1866 [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 Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Myrto", published 1885 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quinze mélodies, deux chœurs, no. 3, Éd. Hartmann & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "Myrto" [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 11, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Wroblewski , "Myrto" [ high voice and piano ], from Six Feuillets d'Album, no. 1, Éd. H. Rohdé [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Myrto", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2019-02-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 94

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