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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

La Demoiselle
Language: French (Français) 
Quand la demoiselle dorée
S’envole au départ des hivers,
Souvent sa robe diaprée,
Souvent son aile est déchirée
Aux mille dards des buissons verts.

Ainsi, jeunesse vive et frêle.
Qui, t’égarant de tous côtés,
Voles où ton instinct t’appelle.
Souvent tu déchires ton aile
Aux épines des voluptés.

Confirmed with Victor Hugo, Œuvres complètes : Odes et Ballades. Essais et Poésies diverses. Les Orientales, Ollendorf, 1912, vol. 24, p. 230. The poem has the following epigraph:

               Un rien sait l’animer ; curieuse et volage, 
               Elle va parcourant tous les objets flatteurs, 
               Sans se fixer jamais, non plus que sur les fleurs 
               Les zéphyrs vagabonds, doux rivaux des abeilles, 
               Ou le baiser ravi sur des lèvres vermeilles. 
                          --André Chénier. 


Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "La Demoiselle", appears in Odes et Ballades, in 4. Odes, Livre Quatrième - 1819-1827, no. 16 [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 Maurice Journeau (1898 - 1999), "La Demoiselle", op. 5 no. 2 (1922) [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2017-05-04
Line count: 10
Word count: 48

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