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by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933)

Aucun jour je ne me suis dit
Language: French (Français) 
Aucun jour je ne me suis dit
Que tu pouvais être mortel.
Tu ressembles au paradis,
À tout ce qu’on croit éternel !
— Mais, ce soir, j’ai senti, dans l’air
Humide d’un parc triste et blême,
La terreuse odeur des asters
Et du languissant chrysanthème…

Quoi ! tu peux mourir ! — et je t’aime !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), no title, written 1924, appears in Poème de l'Amour, Éd. Arthème Fayard, Paris, first published 1924 [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 Robert Oboussier (1900 - 1957), "Aucun jour je ne me suis dit", 1952? [ contralto and piano ], from Vie et mort, 12 poèmes de la Comtesse de Noailles pour contralto et piano, no. 5, Kassel & Basel, Bärenreiter [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2019-04-22
Line count: 9
Word count: 53

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