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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Translation © by Elena Mariani
La pauvre fleur disait au papillon...
Language: French (Français)
La pauvre fleur disait au papillon céleste : - Ne fuis pas ! Vois comme nos destins sont différents. Je reste, Tu t'en vas ! Pourtant nous nous aimons, nous vivons sans les hommes Et loin d'eux, Et nous nous ressemblons, et l'on dit que nous sommes Fleurs tous deux ! Mais, hélas ! l'air t'emporte et la terre m'enchaîne. Sort cruel ! Je voudrais embaumer ton vol de mon haleine Dans le ciel ! Mais non, tu vas trop loin ! - Parmi des fleurs sans nombre Vous fuyez, Et moi je reste seule à voir tourner mon ombre A mes pieds. Tu fuis, puis tu reviens ; puis tu t'en vas encore Luire ailleurs. [Aussi]1 me trouves-tu toujours à chaque aurore Toute en pleurs ! Oh ! pour que notre amour coule des jours fidèles, Ô mon roi, Prends comme moi racine, ou donne-moi des ailes Comme à toi !
J. Massenet sets stanzas 1-3
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Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1834, appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 27a, first published 1835 [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 Giulio Alary (1814 - 1891), "Le Papillon et la fleur" [ high voice and piano ], from 20 Mélodies, Vol. I, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerk [sung text not yet checked]
- by Victor Emanuel Bendix (1851 - 1926), "La Pauvre Fleur", op. 21 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre Poésies de Victor Hugo, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolfo Cogni , "La Pauvre Fleur", copyright © 1977 [ voice and piano ], BMG Ricordi Music Publishing [sung text checked 1 time]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "La Pauvre Fleur disait", op. 23 (Six mélodies) no. 5 (1884), published 1884 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Durand, Schoenewerck & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Paul-Charles-Marie Curet (1848 - 1917), as Paul Puget, "La Fleur et le papillon", 1870-79? [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, Vol. 1, no. 12, Éd. Girod [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Le Papillon et la fleur", op. 1 no. 1 (1861), published 1869 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "La pauvre fleur et le papillon", op. 7 no. 11, published 1868 [ voice and piano ], from 12 morceaux pour chant et piano, 1re série, no. 11, Paris : G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "La Fleur au papillon", CG. 494 (1835) [ high voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Auguste Guéroult (1836 - 1911), "La Fleur et le papillon", op. 16 no. 3, published [1879] [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes lyriques, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Félix Mackar [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joannès Malhomé , "Fleur et Papillon", published [1880] [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "La Fleur et le papillon", 1862, stanzas 1-3 [ contralto and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Millet (1813 - 1882), "La Fleur et le papillon", published c1877 [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jullien Pecarrere , "La Pauvre Fleur", subtitle: "Bluette. Chant du crépuscule", published <<1840 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Bernard Latte [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Le Papillon et la fleur", published 1847 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Le Papillon et la fleur", 1883 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Elena Mariani) , no title, copyright © 2014, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Mercedes Vivas) , no title, copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Andrew Schneider [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 139
Il povero fiore diceva alla celestiale...
Language: Italian (Italiano) after the French (Français)
Il povero fiore diceva alla celestiale farfalla: non fuggire! Vedi come i nostri destini sono diversi: io resto, tu te ne vai! Però noi ci amiamo, viviamo senza gli uomini e lontano da loro! E noi ci assomigliamo e si dice che siamo entrambi fiori! Ma ahimè, l'aria ti prende e la terra mi incatena. Sorte crudele! Vorrei profumare il tuo volo con il mio respiro Nel cielo! Ma no, tu vai troppo lontano, tra gli innumerevoli fiori. Voi fuggite! Ed io resto solo a veder girare la mia ombra ai miei piedi! Tu fuggi, poi ritorni, poi te ne vai ancora a splendere altrove! Così mi troverai sempre ad ogni aurora tutto in lacrime! Ah! Affinché il nostro amore trascorra dei giorni fedeli, o mia regina, Come me metti radici, o dammi ali Come le tue!
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Translation of the title "Le papillon et la fleur" = "La farfalla e il fiore"Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2014 by Elena Mariani, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1834, appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 27a, first published 1835
This text was added to the website: 2014-11-03
Line count: 24
Word count: 137