LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,958)
  • Text Authors (20,983)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,134)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Espoir en Dieu
 (Sung text for setting by G. Bazzoni)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Espère, enfant! demain! et puis demain encore!
Et puis toujours demain! croyons dans l'avenir.
Espère! et chaque fois que se lève l'aurore,
Soyons là pour prier comme Dieu pour bénir!

Nos fautes, mon pauvre ange, ont causé nos souffrances.
Peut-être qu'en restant bien long-temps à genoux,
Quand il aura béni toutes les innocences,
Puis tous les repentirs, Dieu finira par nous!
Confirmed with Oeuvres Complètes de Victor Hugo. Poésie V, Les chants du crépuscule, Paris: Eugène Renduel et H. Delloye, 1839, pages 257-258.

Composition:

    Set to music by Giovanni Luigi Bazzoni (c1814 - 1871), "Espoir en Dieu" [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Espoir en Dieu", appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 30

See other settings of this text.

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sharon Krebs [Senior Associate Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2013-05-13
Line count: 8
Word count: 61

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2026 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris