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by Philippe Desportes (1545 - 1606)

Icare est chu ici, le jeune audacieux
Language: French (Français) 
Icare [est chu ici]1, le jeune audacieux,
Qui pour voler au Ciel eut assez de courage :
Ici tomba son corps degarni de plumage,
Laissant tous braves coeurs de sa chute envieux.

Ô bienheureux travail d'un esprit glorieux,
Qui tire un si grand gain d'un si petit dommage !
Ô bienheureux malheur, plein de tant d'avantage
Qu'il rende le vaincu des ans victorieux !

Un chemin si nouveau n'étonna sa jeunesse,
Le pouvoir lui faillit, mais non la hardiesse ;
Il eut, pour le brûler, des astres le plus beau.

Il mourut poursuivant une haute aventure,
Le ciel fut son désir, la mer sa sépulture :
Est-il plus beau dessein, ou plus riche tombeau ?

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1 Garner, Massé: "ici tomba"; further changes may exist not shown above.

Text Authorship:

  • by Philippe Desportes (1545 - 1606), "Sonnet I", appears in Les amours d'Hippolyte [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 André-Marie Cuvelier , "Icare", 1938 [ low voice and piano ], from Chansons pour Hélène, 4ème recueil, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Édouard Garnier (1821 - 1887), "Icare", published <<1878 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt sonnets mis en musique, no. 17, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Icare" [ baritone and piano ], from Chants d'autrefois: recueil des premières mélodies de V. Massé, no. 5, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-05-26
Line count: 14
Word count: 111

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