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Songes-tu parfois, bien-aimée, Assise près du foyer clair, Lorsque, sous la porte fermée Gémit la bise de l’hiver, Qu’après cette automne clémente Les oiseaux, cher peuple étourdi, Trop tard, par un jour de tourmente, Ont pris leur vol vers le Midi ; Que leurs ailes, blanches de givre, Sont lasses d’avoir voyagé ; Que sur le long chemin à suivre Il a neigé, neigé, neigé ; Et que, perdus dans la rafale, Ils sont là, transis et sans voix, Eux dont la chanson triomphale Charmait nos courses dans les bois ? Hélas ! comme il faut qu’il en meure De ces émigrés grelottants ! Y songes-tu ? Moi, je les pleure, Nos chanteurs du dernier printemps. Tu parles, ce soir où tu m’aimes, Des oiseaux du prochain Avril ; Mais ce ne seront plus les mêmes, Et ton amour attendra-t-il ?
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Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de François Coppée. Poésies, Tome II, Librairie L. Hébert, 1892, pages 331-332.
Authorship:
- by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Janvier", written 1876, appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 3. Les mois, no. 1, Paris Éd. Alphonse Lemerre [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 Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Chanson de Janvier", op. 102 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Mois, no. 1, Paris, Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Mélant (1855 - 1916), "Janvier" [ medium voice and piano ], from Les Mois - 12 poésies de F. Coppée, no. 1, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Songes-tu parfois bien-aimée" [ high voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 40, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2018-04-05
Line count: 24
Word count: 141
Do you sometimes dream, beloved, sitting by the bright hearth, When the winter breeze moans under the closed door, That after this mild autumn that the birds, dear thoughtless people, Too late, on a stormy day, have taken their flight towards the south; That their wings, white with frost, are weary of having travelled; That on the long road ahead it snowed, snowed, snowed; And that, lost in the gust, they are there, frozen and voiceless, They whose triumphant song charmed our journeys in the woods? Alas! They must die - These shivering wanderers! Are you thinking of them? I mourn for them, our singers of the last spring. This evening you speak lovingly to me, of the birds of next April; But they will not be the same, and will your love wait?
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "Janvier", written 1876, appears in Les Récits et les Élégies, in Élégies, in 3. Les mois, no. 1, Paris Éd. Alphonse Lemerre
This text was added to the website: 2023-06-06
Line count: 24
Word count: 134