by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
La pauvre fleur disait au papillon...
Language: French (Français)
La pauvre fleur disait au papillon céleste : - Ne fuis pas ! Vois comme nos destins sont différents. Je reste, Tu t'en vas ! Pourtant nous nous aimons, nous vivons sans les hommes Et loin d'eux, Et nous nous ressemblons, et l'on dit que nous sommes Fleurs tous deux ! Mais, hélas ! l'air t'emporte et la terre m'enchaîne. Sort cruel ! Je voudrais embaumer ton vol de mon haleine Dans le ciel ! Mais non, tu vas trop loin ! - Parmi des fleurs sans nombre Vous fuyez, Et moi je reste seule à voir tourner mon ombre A mes pieds. Tu fuis, puis tu reviens ; puis tu t'en vas encore Luire ailleurs. Aussi me trouves-tu toujours à chaque aurore Toute en pleurs ! Oh ! pour que notre amour coule des jours fidèles, Ô mon roi, Prends comme moi racine, ou donne-moi des ailes Comme à toi !
J. Massenet sets stanzas 1-3
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View text with all available footnotesText Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1834, appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 27a, first published 1835 [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 Giulio Alary (1814 - 1891), "Le Papillon et la fleur" [ high voice and piano ], from 20 Mélodies, Vol. I, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerk [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Emanuel Bendix (1851 - 1926), "La Pauvre Fleur", op. 21 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Poésies de Victor Hugo, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolfo Cogni , "La Pauvre Fleur", copyright © 1977 [ voice and piano ], BMG Ricordi Music Publishing [sung text checked 1 time]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "La Pauvre Fleur disait", op. 23 (Six mélodies) no. 5 (1884), published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand, Schoenewerck & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "La Fleur et le papillon", 1870-79? [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 12, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Le Papillon et la fleur", op. 1 no. 1 (1861), published 1869 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "La pauvre fleur et le papillon", op. 7 no. 11, published 1868 [ voice and piano ], from 12 morceaux pour chant et piano, 1re série, no. 11, Paris : G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "La Fleur au papillon", CG. 494 (1835) [ high voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Auguste Guéroult (1836 - 1911), "La Fleur et le papillon", op. 16 no. 3, published [1879] [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes lyriques, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Félix Mackar [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joannès Malhomé , "Fleur et Papillon", published [1880] [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "La Fleur et le papillon", 1862, stanzas 1-3 [ contralto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Millet (1813 - 1882), "La Fleur et le papillon", published c1877 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jullien Pecarrere , "La Pauvre Fleur", subtitle: "Bluette. Chant du crépuscule", published <<1840 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Bernard Latte [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Le Papillon et la fleur", published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Le Papillon et la fleur", 1883 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Elena Mariani) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , no title, copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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