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by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)

Pensée perdue
Language: French (Français) 
Elle est si douce, la pensée,
Qu'il faut, pour en sentir l'attrait,
D'une vision commencée
S'éveiller tout à coup distrait.

Le coeur dépouillé la réclame ;
Il ne la fait point revenir,
Et cependant elle est dans l'âme,
Et l'on mourrait pour la finir.

A quoi pensais-je tout à l'heure ?
A quel beau songe évanoui
Dois-je les larmes que je pleure ?
Il m'a laissé tout ébloui.

Et ce bonheur d'une seconde,
Nul effort ne me l'a rendu ;
Je n'ai goûté de joie au monde
Qu'en rêve, et mon rêve est perdu.

Text Authorship:

  • by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), "Pensée perdue", written 1865-1866, appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in La Vie intérieure, no. 13, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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 Olga Nazaykinskaia (b. 1962), "Pensée perdue", 2012, published 2012 [ low voice and piano ], from Trois chants pour basse et piano, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-12-13
Line count: 16
Word count: 90

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