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by Jules-Henri Vernoy, marquis de Saint-Georges (1801? - 1875)

Pourquoi pleurer?
Language: French (Français) 
Un soir dans la forêt immense
Je l'attendais les yeux en pleurs,
Quand des bois perçant le silence
J'entendis ces mots séducteurs:
Pourquoi pleurer, pleurer, quand on est belle?
Si l'on t'oublie, oublie à ton tour.
Le coeur de l'homme est infidèle.
Moi, j'aime d'éternel amour.

Bientôt rayonnant de lumière
Parut, tout à coup à mes yeux,
Un être si parfait mon père,
Qu'il me semblait venir des cieux.
Pourquoi pleurer, pleurer, quand on est belle?
Si l'on t'oublie, oublie à ton tour.
Le coeur de l'homme est infidèle.
Moi, j'aime d'éternel amour.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jules-Henri Vernoy, marquis de Saint-Georges (1801? - 1875) [author's text not yet checked 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 Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Pourquoi pleurer", published 1886 [ high voice and piano ], from Seize mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Tessier (1851 - 1909), as Ernest Lavigne, "Pourquoi pleurer?" [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "Why are you weeping?"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 93

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