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N'écris pas - Je suis triste, et je voudrais m'éteindre Les beaux étés sans toi, c'est la nuit sans flambeau J'ai refermé mes bras qui ne peuvent t'atteindre, Et frapper à mon cœur, c'est frapper au tombeau N'écris pas ! N'écris pas - N'apprenons qu'à mourir à nous-mêmes Ne demande qu'à Dieu ... qu'à toi, si je t'aimais ! Au fond de ton absence écouter que tu m'aimes, C'est entendre le ciel sans y monter jamais N'écris pas ! N'écris pas - Je te crains ; j'ai peur de ma mémoire; Elle a gardé ta voix qui m'appelle souvent Ne montre pas l'eau vive à qui ne peut la boire Une chère écriture est un portrait vivant N'écris pas ! N'écris pas ces mots doux que je n'ose plus lire : Il semble que ta voix les répand sur mon cœur; Que je les vois brûler à travers ton sourire ; Il semble qu'un baiser les empreint sur mon cœur N'écris pas !
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Authorship:
- by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les séparés" [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 Jeanne Bernard (1895 - 1965), "Les séparés", published [1933] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Senart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Boeuf (b. 1937), "N'écris pas !", 1997 [ medium voice, piano, and bandoneon ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Les séparés", op. 178 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raúl Hugo Espoile (1889 - 1958), "Les séparés (Romance)" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anne Mantaux (b. 1966), "Les séparés", 2016 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edmond de Polignac, prince (1834 - 1901), "N'écris pas !", <<1884 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies et pièces diverses pour chant, no. 5, Paris, Édition Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henri Woollett (1864 - 1936), "N'écris pas !", 1910 [ medium voice and piano ], from Marceline ou la Vie d'une Femme, huit mélodies sur des poèmes de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, no. 5, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-11
Line count: 20
Word count: 163
Do not write - I am sad, and I'd like to just fade out. Beautiful summers without you are like nights with no lamp. I have closed my arms again now that they cannot touch you, and striking at my heart is striking on the tomb. Do not write! Do not write - Let's learn just to die to ourselves. Ask only God - and you - whether I loved you! For me, deep in your absence, to hear that you love me is to hear heaven without ever ascending there. Do not write! Do not write - I fear you, I fear my own memory; it has kept your voice which often calls me. Do not show fresh water to someone who cannot drink it. A piece of cherished writing is a living portrait. Do not write! Do not write those sweet words that I no longer dare read - it seems that your voice is spreading them on my heart, that I see them burning out through your smiling lips; it seems that a kiss is imprinting them on my heart. Do not write!
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les séparés"
This text was added to the website: 2022-07-01
Line count: 20
Word count: 186