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by Rémy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915)

Afin que tu éprouves des tendresses...
Language: French (Français) 
Afin que tu éprouves des tendresses nouvelles,
Je te donne à l'amie qui régit mon destin :
Ses yeux sont des fleurs vives, ses cheveux sont des ailes,
Son esprit se promène en un songe hautain,

Sois sage, ô main trop tendre, et cache le passé
Sous tes ongles, aux replis secrets de tes jointures,
Comme je cache au fond de mon vieux cœur blessé
Le souvenir sacré des belles meurtrissures.
O main, je te regarde avec mélancolie.

R. Berthelot sets stanza 2

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Text Authorship:

  • by Rémy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915), no title, written 1912, appears in Divertissements, in La main, no. 2, Paris, Éd. G. Crès, first published 1912 [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):

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  • by René Camille Henri Berthelot (1903 - 1999), "La main", published 1981 [medium voice and piano], Éd. Henry Lemoine.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-06-12
Line count: 9
Word count: 77

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