Fleur jetée | Emporte ma folie

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Fleur jetée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT CHI ENG GER ITA

Emporte ma folie
     Au gré du vent,
Fleur en chantant cueillie
Et jetée en rêvant,
- Emporte ma folie
     Au gré du vent:

Comme la fleur fauchée
     Périt l'amour:
La main qui t'a touchée
Fuit ma main sans retour.
- Comme la fleur fauchée
     Périt l'amour.

Que le vent qui te sèche
     O pauvre fleur,
Tout à l'heure si fraîche
Et demain sans couleur,
- Que le vent qui te sèche,
     Sèche mon coeur!

Text Authorship:

by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), appears in La chanson des heures, poésies nouvelles 1874-1878, in 6. Vers pour être chantés, in 11. Chansons Matinales dans le gout de Théophile de Viau, no. 3 [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 Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "Fleur jetée", published 1889 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Fleur jetée", op. 39 no. 2 (1884), published 1885, first performed 1884 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "Fleur jetée", published [1889] [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], from Quatrième recueil de vingt mélodies, no. 9, Édition Heugel 'Au Ménestrel' [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Fleur jetée", op. 52 no. 4 (1994), published 2014 [ voice and piano ], from Fünf Lieder nach Texten von Armand Silvestre, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 71