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by Édouard Schneider (1880 - 1960)

Image
Language: French (Français) 
J'emporte un pur souvenir
Au creux le plus chaud de mes mains,
Au plus caché des replis de mon coeur,
Un cher secret que seul je connais et possède,
Une image -- saurai-je jamais où la tendresse
Le cède en elle à la douleur? --
Une image toute vivante, toute blanche,
Une image toute nue d'enfant
Une image d'offrande,
Une image
Sur quoi mes yeux se ferment,
Et mes mains se joignent,
Et mes lèvres,
Avec un triste, avec un long sourire,
Se closent.

Text Authorship:

  • by Édouard Schneider (1880 - 1960), "Image", appears in Poèmes, ornés d'un frontispice de Lucien Jacques, Paris, Éd. William-Luc, in "Cahiers de l'Artisan" no. 3, first published 1920 [author's text not yet checked 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 Jean-Émile-Paul Cras (1879 - 1932), "Image", 1921, published 1923 [voice and piano], Éd. Maurice Sénart (Salabert) [ sung text verified 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 82

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