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by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859)

L'Absence
Language: French (Français) 
Quand je me sens mourir du poids de ma pensée,
Quand sur moi tout mon sort rassemble sa rigueur,
D'un courage inutile affranchie et lassée,
Je me sauve avec toi dans le fond de mon cœur !

Tu grondes ma tristesse, et, triste de mes larmes,
De tes plus doux accents tu me redis les charmes :
J'espère !... car ta voix, plus forte que mon sort,
De mes chagrins profonds triomphe sans effort.

Je ne sais ; mais je crois qu'à tes regrets rendue,
Dans ces seuls entretiens tu m'as toute entendue.
Tu ne dis pas : « Ce soir ! » Tu ne dis pas : « Demain ! »
Non, mais tu dis : « Toujours ! » en pleurant sur ma main.

Confirmed with Les Œuvres poétiques de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, ed. by Marc Bertrand, tome 1, Grenoble : Presses universitaires de Grenoble, 1973.


Text Authorship:

  • by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "L'Absence" [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 Luigi Denza (1846 - 1922), "L'Absence" [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-03-13
Line count: 12
Word count: 116

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