LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,028)
  • Text Authors (19,311)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,112)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

Attends‑moi longtemps
Language: French (Français) 
Adieu, ma petite,
Il faut nous quitter ;
Embrasse-moi vite
Sans te lamenter...
Adieu, ma plus tendre,
Fleur aux vingt printemps ;
Si tu peux attendre,
Attends-moi longtemps.

 Hélas ! comment faire,
François, mon vainqueur !
Sur un cri de guerre
Reprend-on son cœur ?
- Eh bien, ma plus tendre,
Fleur aux vingt printemps ;
Si tu peux attendre,
Attends-moi longtemps.

- Si j’étais, chère âme,
Par-devant la loi,
Un peu plus ta femme,
J’irais avec toi !
- Adieu, ma plus tendre,
Fleur aux vingt printemps ;
Si tu peux attendre,
Attends-moi longtemps.

- François, que t’importe
Ta femme ou ton chien !
Prends-moi vive ou morte ;
Car je suis ton bien !
- Adieu, ma plus tendre,
Fleur aux vingt printemps ;
Si tu peux attendre,
Attends-moi longtemps.

Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Attends-moi longtemps", written 1841?, first published 1841 [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 Pauline Duchambge (1778 - 1858), "Attends-moi longtemps", published 1928 [ medium voice and piano ], from Romances inédites de M. Desbordes-Valmore, recueillies par Bertrand Guégan, et décorées de vignettes par Pierre Laprade, no. 28, Paris, Éd. de la Collection des Parallèles [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2025-03-28
Line count: 32
Word count: 115

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris