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by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825 - 1901)

Cette fleur je l'avais cueillie
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Cette fleur je l'avais cueillie
À tes pieds, au bord du chemin!
Tu me dis en tendant la main:
Donne-la-moi fraîche et jolie!

À ces bois où l'oiseau soupire,
Nous avons conté nos secrets!
Rêveuse, tu la respirais,
Et la fleur cachait ton sourire!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Gounod 

About the headline (FAQ)

Note: in Gounod's score, a footnote appears above "Cette fleur..." and the note informs us: "Les paroles de la 2de strophe sont de J.B." The Bibliothèque nationale de France Catalogue confirms this is Jules Barbier. The indication that these words form the "2de strophe" seem to imply that the first three stanzas by Gozlan should be considered one unit, but we have left them as they were published by Gozlan - in three separate stanzas. We have also left the above text in two-stanza format to remain consistent; however, when displaying this as a song text in a concert program or CD booklet, it would be reasonable to show a 12-line strophe followed by an 8-line strophe as suggested by the footnote in the score.


Text Authorship:

  • by (Paul) Jules Barbier (1825 - 1901)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
  • by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Donne-moi cette fleur", CG 375 (c1867), published 1869 [ voice and piano ]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Dr Melissa Givens [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2021-05-26
Line count: 8
Word count: 44

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