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by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941)

La Sirène
Language: French (Français) 
L'Espérance est une sirène 
Qui chante au milieu des rochers :
L'île d'amour que vous cherchez 
A la douleur pour souveraine. 

C'est la douleur qui vous entraîne 
Plus que la soif des beaux péchés :
L'Espérance est une sirène 
Qui chante au milieu des rochers. 

Et le flot défend qu'on reprenne
Le blanc cadavre des nochers 
Qui sont morts pour s'être penchés 
Vers les musiques qu'elle égrène :
L'Espérance est une sirène.

Confirmed with Edmond Haraucourt, Seul, Paris, Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1891, page 32.


Text Authorship:

  • by Edmond Haraucourt (1856 - 1941), "La Sirène", written 1891, appears in Seul, in 1. L'attente, no. 18, Paris, Éd. Bibliothèque Charpentier, first published 1891 [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 Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "La Sirène", 1893 [ high voice and piano ], from Solitudes, 15 poèmes de E. Haraucourt, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-10-22
Line count: 13
Word count: 69

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