by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Cher doux ange comme je te l'ai promis
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
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Cher doux ange comme je te l'ai promis, avant de m’endormir, je pose mon cœur sur tes lèvres et ma bouche sur tes ailes. Je t’aime.
From a letter to Juliette Drouet dated March 23, 1854 11:30pm. This is a prose text; we have added line-breaks arbitrarily.
Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), written 1854 [author's text not yet checked 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 Renaud Gagneux (b. 1947), "Cher doux ange comme je te l'ai promis", 1990?, published 1990 [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre mots pour Juliette, Cycle de 4 mélodies sur des billets de V. Hugo à Juliette Drouet, no. 2, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Dear sweet angel, as I promised you", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Léa Pasquel
This text was added to the website: 2020-10-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 26