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by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)

Les Roses
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Lorsque le ciel de saphir est de feu,
Lorsque l'Eté, de son haleine touche
La folle Nymphe amoureuse, et par jeu
Met un charbon rougissant sur sa bouche;
Quand sa chaleur, dédaigneuse et farouche,
Fait tressaillir le myrte et le cyprès,
On sent brûler sous ses magiques traits
Les fronts blémis, et les lèvres micloses,
Et le riant feuillage des forêts,
Et vous aussi, coeurs enflammés des Roses.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Les Roses", L. 28/(13) (1881) [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Les Roses", appears in Les Cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 15, first published 1842

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , "Les Roses", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Roses", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 71

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