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by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs

Les remords
Language: French (Français) 
D’abord je n’ai pas répondu, 
et j’avais la honte sur les joues, 
et les battements de mon cœur 
faisaient mal à mes seins.

Puis j’ai résisté, j’ai dit : « Non. Non. » 
J’ai tourné la tête en arrière 
et le baiser n’a pas franchi mes lèvres, 
ni l’amour mes genoux serrés.

Alors il m’a demandé pardon, 
il m’a embrassé les cheveux, 
j’ai senti son haleine brûlante, 
et il est parti… Maintenant je suis seule.

Je regarde la place vide, 
le bois désert, la terre foulée. 
Et je mords mes poings jusqu’au sang 
et j’étouffe mes cris dans l’herbe.

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Pierre Louÿs, 1929 - 1931, tome 2 (1894 (Chansons de Bilitis)), Paris, Slatkine reprints, 1973, page 51.

Note: this is a prose text. The line breaks are arbitrary.


Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "Les remords", written 1897, appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Bucoliques en Pamphylie, no. 34, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897 [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 Aimée Strohl (1865 - 1941), "Les remords", published 1900 [ high voice and piano ], from Bilitis, Poème en 12 chants, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Toledo & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2019-04-09
Line count: 16
Word count: 98

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