Rien ne m'est plus rien, que les roses Qui bordent l'auvent de mon toit, Qu'au fond de mon jardin étroit Les pivoines hier écloses ; Matins joyeux ou soirs moroses, Ciel où le jour croît ou décroit, A plus rien mon âme ne croit Qu'en vous, ô douces vieilles choses ! Des hommes, -- hélas ! que j'aimais ! -- Je suis fatigué pour jamais : Je m'en vais de leur triste orgie. Au cœur des choses, sans remords, Tout vivant je me réfugie, En attendant d'y rentrer mort.
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Confirmed with Fernand Gregh, Les Clartés Humaines. Poésies. Deuxième mille, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1904, pages 131-132.
Text Authorship:
- by Fernand Gregh (1873 - 1960), "Désespoir", written 1904?, appears in Les clartés humaines, in 6. Pensées, no. 12, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1904 [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 Émile Poirson , "Désespoir", op. 1 no. 5, published [1907] [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de poètes, no. 5, Éd. A.Z. Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Soyer (1882 - 1965), "Désespoir", published 1923 [ medium voice and string quartet ], from Quatre Mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
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