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by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)

J'ai dit à mon cœur, à mon faible cœur
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
J'ai dit à mon cœur, à mon faible cœur :
N'est-ce point assez d'aimer sa maîtresse ?
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse,
C'est perdre en désirs le temps du bonheur ?

Il m'a répondu : Ce n'est point assez,
Ce n'est point assez d'aimer sa maîtresse ;
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse
Nous rend doux et chers les plaisirs passés ?

J'ai dit à mon cœur, à mon faible cœur :
N'est-ce point assez de tant de tristesse ?
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse,
C'est à chaque pas trouver la douleur ?

Il m'a répondu : Ce n'est point assez
Ce n'est point assez de tant de tristesse ;
Et ne vois-tu pas que changer sans cesse
Nous rend doux et chers les chagrins passés ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Louis Charles Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857), "Chanson : J'ai dit à mon cœur...", appears in Premières poésies [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 Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "J'ai dit à mon cœur", published <<1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 2e série, no. 23, Paris, Maurice Senart, B. Roudanez & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "J'ai dit à mon cœur", 1870-79? [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 4, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Louis Diémer (1843 - 1919), "Chanson d' Alfred de Musset", 1863 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gaston Doin (1878 - 1962), "Chanson", published 1950 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies romantiques, no. 11, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "Chanson", 1910/11, from Deux poèmes de Alfred de Musset, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Camille Erlanger (1863 - 1919), "J'ai dit à mon cœur", published [1893] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Paul Dupont [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Guimet (1836 - 1918), "Chanson" [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons d'amour, no. 9, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eduard Lassen (1830 - 1904), "Chanson", published 1869 [ voice and piano ], from 12 mélodies, no. 1, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest-Louis-Victor-Jules L'Épine (1826 - 1893), "Chanson", published [1868] [ high voice and piano ], from 22 Scènes et Chansons, no. 7, Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Antoine-François Marmontel (1816 - 1898), "J'ai dit à mon cœur", published [1862] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by André Philippe Alfred Régnier de Massa, comte Gronau (1837 - 1913), "Chanson" [ high voice and piano ], from Recueil de Mélodies, 1er volume, no. 3, Durand, Schoenewerk [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Mathias (1826 - 1910), "Chanson", <<1888 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by (Martin François) Hippolyte Mirande (1862 - 1938), "Chanson", published [1884] [ high voice and piano ], from Mélopées, no. 6, Paris, Éd. J. Naus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Pessard (1843 - 1917), "J'ai dit à mon cœur" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marie Félicie Clémence de Reiset (1828 - 1907), as Vicomtesse de Grandval, "Chanson", published [1857] [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Taconet (1889 - 1962), "Chanson", op. 36 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by César Antonovich Cui.
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Other 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 text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2013-10-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 123

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