Blotti comme un oiseau frileux au fond...
Language: French (Français)
Blotti comme un oiseau frileux au fond du nid,
Les yeux sur ton profil, je songe à l'infini...
Immobile sur les coussins brodés, j'évoque
L'enchantement ancien, la radieuse époque,
Et les rêves au ciel de tes yeux verts baignés !
Et je revis, parmi les objets imprégnés
De ton parfum intime et cher, l'ancienne année
Celle qui flotte encor dans ta robe fanée...
Je t'aime ingénument. Je t'aime pour te voir.
Ta voix me sonne au cœur comme un chant dans le soir.
Et penché sur ton cou, doux comme les calices,
J'épuise goutte à goutte, en amères délices,
Pendant que mon soleil décroît à l'horizon
Le charme douloureux de l'arrière-saison.
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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), "Arrière-saison", 1910, published 1912, first performed 1912 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], from Elégies, 4 poèmes d' A. Samain, pour chant et orchestre, no. 4, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Blotti comme un oiseau frileux", published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq mélodies, no. 4, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel', Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Blotti comme un oiseau frileux", published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Pour toi, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Philippe Narcès , "Blotti comme un oiseau", <<1919 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies, 1er recueil, no. 6, Paris, Éd. F. Durdilly, Charles Hayet successeur [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Ravarin (1890 - 1917), "Élégie I", 1914 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Mélodies, no. 15 [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Curled up like a delicate bird in a nest
Language: English after the French (Français)
Curled up like a delicate bird in a nest,
I stare at your profile and think of infinity...
Motionless on the embroidered cushions, I call to mind
the old enchantment, the radiant epoch,
and the dreams bathed in the heaven of your green eyes!
And among the objects bearing your intimate cherished perfume
I re-live that bygone year, the one
that still floats in your faded dress...
I love you naively. I love you to see you.
Your voice sounds in my heart like a song in the evening.
And leaning over your neck, which is sweet as a chalice,
while my sun is sinking on the horizon,
I suck out, drop by drop, with bitter pleasure,
the painful charm of the late autumn.
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