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by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Tu ne veux pas aimer, méchante ?
Language: French (Français) 
Tu ne veux pas aimer, méchante ?
Le printemps est triste, vois ;
Entends-tu ce que l'oiseau chante
Dans la sombre douceur des bois ?

Sans l'amour rien ne reste d'Ève ;
L'amour, c'est la seule beauté ;
Le ciel, bleu quand l'astre s'y lève,
Est tout noir, le soleil ôté.

Tu deviendras laide toi-même
Si tu n'as pas plus de raison.
L'oiseau chante qu'il faut qu'on aime,
Et ne sait pas d'autre chanson.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "À Rosita", appears in Les Chansons des rues et des bois, in 1. Livre premier : Jeunesse, in 6. L'Eternel petit roman, no. 5 [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 Jules Bleichmann (1868 - 1909), "À Rosita", op. 11 no. 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Camille Erlanger (1863 - 1919), "Tu ne veux pas aimer", published [1910] [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 3, Éd. Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Marguerite Labori (1864 - 1952), "A Rosita", published 1900 [ high voice and piano ], from 10 Mélodies, 2ème recueil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. L. Grus & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Tu ne veux pas aimer, méchante ?" [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 5, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 69

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