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by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900)

Blotti comme un oiseau frileux au fond...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Blotti comme un oiseau frileux au fond du nid,
Les yeux sur ton profil, je songe à l'infini...
Immobile sur les coussins brodés, j'évoque
L'enchantement ancien, la radieuse époque,
Et les rêves au ciel de tes yeux verts baignés !
Et je revis, parmi les objets imprégnés
De ton parfum intime et cher, l'ancienne année
Celle qui flotte encor dans ta robe fanée...

Je t'aime ingénument. Je t'aime pour te voir.
Ta voix me sonne au cœur comme un chant dans le soir.
Et penché sur ton cou, doux comme les calices,
J'épuise goutte à goutte, en amères délices,
Pendant que mon soleil décroît à l'horizon
Le charme douloureux de l'arrière-saison.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), no title, appears in Le chariot d'or, in 2. Élégies, no. 7, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1901 [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), "Arrière-saison", 1910, published 1912, first performed 1912 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], from Elégies, 4 poèmes d' A. Samain, pour chant et orchestre, no. 4, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Blotti comme un oiseau frileux", published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies, no. 4, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel', Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Blotti comme un oiseau frileux", published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Pour toi, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Philippe Narcès , "Blotti comme un oiseau", <<1919 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 6, Paris, Éd. F. Durdilly, Charles Hayet successeur [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Robert Ravarin (1890 - 1917), "Élégie I", 1914 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Mélodies, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-01-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 110

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