LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,111)
  • Text Authors (19,486)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire (1805 - 1867)

Le mois de Mai
Language: French (Français) 
C'est le mois des roses,
Le réveil des fleurs,
Où sur toutes choses
Dieu mit ses splendeurs.
C'est la tiède haleine
Passant dans l'air pur,
Inondant la plaine
De ses flots d'azur.

C'est l'oiseau qui chante
Aux bois parfumés.

C'est l'eau des fontaines
Quzi creuse le sol,
Chantant sous les frênes
Comme un rossignol.
C'est le frais rivage
Où le lis penché
Mire son visage
Au soleil caché,

C'est le nid de mousse
Au pied des lilas.

O Vierge chèrie,
Dont Mai prit le nom,
Pourquoi donc, Marie,
Le lui donna-t-on ?
C'est que ton visage,
Ainsi que ton cœur,
Sont la douce image
De tout ce bonheur.

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre Jean Hyacinthe Adonis (or Antoine) "Cléon" Galoppe d'Onquaire (1805 - 1867) [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 Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Le mois de Mai", 1876, published 1877 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2021-02-04
Line count: 28
Word count: 107

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris