by
Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons
Language: French (Français)
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons :
Les filles la trouvent sauvage.
-- On la fuit, -- et les beaux garçons
Ne l'embrassent pas au passage.
Elle s'en va loin des maisons,
S'asseoir près de la mer immense.
Nul ne regrette son absence :
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.
Noël vient, vêtu de glaçons :
On danse autour du feu qui brille ;
-- Nul n'invite la pauvre fille --
Myrto ne sait pas de chansons.
Mais elle sait le chant austère
Qui vibre au cœur silencieux,
Et que n'écoute point la terre :
-- Myrto sait la chanson des [cieux ?]1
Available sung texts: (what is this?)
• L. Delibes About the headline (FAQ)
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Confirmed with Poésies de Armand Silvestre, 1866-1872, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1880, page 68.
1 Delibes: "cieux !"
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Léo Delibes (1836 - 1891), "Myrto", published 1885 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quinze mélodies, deux chœurs, no. 3, Éd. Hartmann & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), "Myrto" [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 11, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel et Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Wroblewski , "Myrto" [ high voice and piano ], from Six Feuillets d'Album, no. 1, Éd. H. Rohdé [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Myrto", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Myrto
Language: English after the French (Français)
Myrto knows nothing of songs,
The girls find her untamed.
[They] flee [from] her, and the handsome boys
Do not kiss her in passing [by].
She goes far from the houses,
Sitting near the immense sea.
No one regrets her absence:
Myrto knows nothing of songs.
Christmas comes, dressed in icicles:
[Everyone] dances around the fire which shines;
No one invites the poor girl.
Myrto knows nothing of songs.
But she knows the austere singing
Which resonates in the silent heart,
And which the earth does not heed:
[Does Myrto know the song of the skies?]1
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1 Delibes: "Myrto knows the song of the skies !"
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