Le vase brisé | Le vase brisé | Le vase où meurt cette vervaine

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907)

Le vase où meurt cette vervaine

Language: French (Français)

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Le vase où meurt cette vervaine
D'un coup d'éventail fut fêlé ;
Le coup dut l'effleurer à peine,
Aucun bruit ne l'a révélé.

Mais la légère meurtrissure,
Mordant le cristal chaque jour,
D'une marche invisible et sûre
En a fait lentement le tour.

Son eau fraîche a fui goutte à goutte,
Le suc des fleurs s'est épuisé ;
Personne encore ne s'en doute,
N'y touchez pas, il est brisé.

Souvent aussi la main qu'on aime
Effleurant le coeur, le meurtrit ;
Puis le cœur se fend de lui-même,
La fleur de son amour périt ;

Toujours intact aux yeux du monde,
Il sent croître et pleurer tout bas
Sa blessure fine et profonde :
Il est brisé, n'y touchez pas.

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Text Authorship:

by René-François Sully-Prudhomme (1839 - 1907), title 1: "Le vase brisé", title 2: "Le vase brisé", appears in Stances et Poèmes, in 1. Stances, in La Vie intérieure, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1866 [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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Le vase où meurt cette verveine", op. 64 no. 2 (1944) [ medium voice and piano ], from Le chapeau chinois - trois airs extraits de la comédie musicale, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Léonard Amelot (1811 - 1881), "Le Vase brisé", published [1876] [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. F. Schoen [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène Biaggini , "Le Vase brisé", published [1881] [ mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano ], from Six mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by César Franck (1822 - 1890), "Le vase brisé", FWV. 84 (1879), published 1900 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Anna Galliné , "Le Vase brisé", published [1912] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Edmond Hippeau (1849 - 1921), "Le Vase brisé", op. 64, published [1908] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
by Léopold Ketten (1846 - 1932), "Le Vase brisé" [ voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, recueil 2, no. 5, Lausanne, Éd. Foetisch Frères [sung text not yet checked]
by Julie Legoux, Baronne (1842 - 1891), as Gilbert des Roches, "Le vase brisé", published [1879] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
by Jean Eugène Gaston Lemaire (1864 - 1928), "Le vase brisé", published 1917 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Marcel Mercier [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Maquet , "Le Vase brisé", <<1887 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit Mélodies, no. 4, Éd. Choudens Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Mathilde Martinon , "Le vase où meurt" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 4, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Mathias (1826 - 1910), "Le vase brisé", published 1889 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text not yet checked]
by Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin (1862 - 1901), "Le vase brisé", op. 17 (Three songs) no. 2, published 1892 [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Paladilhe (1844 - 1926), "Le vase brisé", 1873 [ medium voice and piano ], Ed. G. Hartmann [sung text checked 1 time]
by Edgar Pierre Joseph Tinel (1854 - 1912), "Le vase brisé", op. 28 no. 1 (1884), published 1889 [ voice and piano ], from Mélancolie. Deux pièces pour chant et piano, no. 1, Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel [sung text checked 1 time]
by Pauline Viardot-García (1821 - 1910), "Le vase brisé" [ medium voice and piano ], from Viardot mélodies, no. 5, Éd. G. Miran & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Le Vase brisé", op. 43 no. 2 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 20, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Aleksei Nikolayevich Apukhtin (1841 - 1893) [an adaptation] ; composed by Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Mikhail Nikolayevich Ofrosimov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Čapek) , "Puklá váza"
CZE Czech (Čeština) (Karel Čapek) , "Puklá váza"

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