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by Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898)

Souvent on voit des mains qui sont...
Language: French (Français) 
Souvent on voit des mains qui sont faibles et lasses	
D'avoir voulu cueillir trop de roses ou d'âmes ;	
Elles pendent le long du corps comme des rames,	
Et ce n'est que du silence qu'elles déplacent	
En remuant, de temps en temps, dans l'air à peine !	
Mains qui voudraient un peu s'amarrer à la rive,	
Mais que la vie, au fil de son courant, entraîne,	
Mains sans espoirs et sans désirs, à la dérive...

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Text Authorship:

  • by Georges Rodenbach (1855 - 1898), no title, written 1896?, appears in Les vies encloses, poème , in 3. Les lignes de la main, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1896 [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 Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Mains lasses", 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, no. 2, Édition Mutuelle (1909); Éd. Rouart-Lerolle / Salabert (1921) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Les Mains lasses", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from 10 Mélodies pour piano et chant, no. 6, Paris, Éd. A. Joanin & Cie [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-03
Line count: 8
Word count: 73

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