by Anonymous / Unidentified Author
Translation by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)
Comme chaque jour, je l'attends....
Language: French (Français) after the Arabic (العربية)
Our translations: ENG
Comme chaque jour, je l'attends. Reviendra-t-elle ? Je pense au soir de l'adieu, au bruit de la porte qu'elle referma sans colère, au silence qu'il y eut dans mon âme. Comme chaque jour, je l'attends. Reviendra-t-elle ? Elle entrerait en disant, pour parler : « Je passais devant ta demeure, et je viens voir si les roses n'ont pas souffert de l'hiver... » Puis, elle sourirait à mon petit jardin, à l'horizon calme, et je sais bien qu'elle ne repartirait pas.
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris: L'édition d'Art H. Piazza, 1921, pages 124-125.
Text Authorship:
- by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "La solitude", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 129, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Arabic (العربية) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist [text unavailable]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Marcel Bernheim (1892 - 1963), "Solitude", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes Arabes extraits du “Jardin des Caresses” de Franz Toussaint, no. 2, Paris, Éditions Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "La Solitude", op. 93 no. 2 (1926), published 2020 [ voice and piano ], from Le jardin des caresses, no. 2, Höflich, München [sung text not yet checked]
- by Maurice Perez , "La Solitude", published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Mélodies Arabes, no. 8, Éd. Rouart-Lerolle (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alberto di Pierlas , "La Solitude", published 1933 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Chants extraits du Jardin des caresses, no. 4, Publication : Paris : R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Giacinto Sallustio (1879 - 1938), "La Solitude" [ voice and orchestra ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]
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