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by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945)

La fausse morte
Language: French (Français) 
Humblement, tendrement, sur le tombeau charmant
  Sur l'insensible monument,
Que d'ombres, d'abandons, et d'amour prodiguée,
Forme ta grâce fatiguée,
Je meurs, je meurs sur toi, je tombe et je m'abats,
Mais à peine abattu sur le sépulcre bas,
Dont la close étendue aux cendres me convie,
Cette morte apparente, en qui revient la vie,
Frémit, rouvre les yeux, m'illumine et me mord,
Et m'arrache toujours une nouvelle mort
  Plus précieuse que la vie.

Text Authorship:

  • by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945), "La fausse morte", written 1921, appears in Charmes, first published 1922 [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 Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La fausse morte", op. 31 no. 3 (1923), published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Paul Valéry, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Frederic Mompou i Dencausse (1893 - 1987), "La fausse morte", 1973, published 1985 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Cinq Mélodies sur des Textes de Paul Valéry, no. 1, Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 11
Word count: 73

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