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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Pour une quête
Language: French (Français) 
L'or qu'au plaisir le riche apporte
Ne fait que glisser dans sa main ;
Le pauvre qui veille à la porte
Attend les miettes de ce pain.

Aux sons de nos harpes de fêtes,
Anges, unissez vos accents ;
Car tous nos luxes sont des quêtes
Où l'art sollicite les sens.

Jouissez, heureux de la terre,
Dans ce temple à la Charité !
Le plaisir est une prière,
Et l'aumône une volupté.

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Lamartine, Paris, chez l'auteur, 1860, pages 173-174.


Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Pour une quête", appears in Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, in Pièces ajoutées, no. 10 [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 Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Pour une quête", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 22, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-04-12
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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