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by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895)

Le délire
 (Sung text for setting by X. Leroux)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Le marchand de perles m'a dit :
Ton front veut-il une couronne ? 
Tout mon bazar qui resplendit, 
Pour ta prunelle, je le donne.

Le marchand de roses reprit : 
Laisse les perles chez l'orfèvre ; 
Tout mon royaume qui fleurit, 
Je l'échange contre ta lèvre.

Le poète au rêve étoilé
Dit à son tour : vivante flamme,
De ton cœur donne-moi la clé,
Et dans mes chants je te proclame.

Mais que m'importe aucun trésor ? 
Je garde cœur, lèvre et prunelle 
Pour quelqu'un n'ayant pas encor 
Soupçonné ma plainte éternelle.

Perles, roses, vers, à mes yeux,
Cela ne vaut pas un grain d'orge. 
Du bien-aimé j'aimerais mieux 
Que l'étrier broyât ma gorge. 

Composition:

    Set to music by Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux (1863 - 1919), "Le délire", published c1886 [ high voice and piano ], from La Solitaire, mélodies Persanes de Armand Renaud, no. 2, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann

Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Délire", written 1870?, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 5. La solitaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870

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

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


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-11-30
Line count: 20
Word count: 108

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