by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889)
Les Présents
Language: French (Français)
Si tu [me parles]1, quelque soir, [Du]2 secret de mon cœur malade, Je te dirai, pour t'émouvoir, Une très ancienne ballade. Si tu me parles de [tourment]3, D'espérance désabusée, J'irai te cueillir, seulement, Des roses pleines de rosée. Si, pareille à la fleur des morts Qui [se plaît]4 dans l'exil des tombes, Tu veux partager mes remords... Je t'apporterai des colombes.
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2 Fauré: "Le"
3 Fauré: "tourments"
4 Fauré: "fleurit"
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Confirmed with Comte de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes cruels, Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1883, pages 303-304.
1 Fauré: "demandes"2 Fauré: "Le"
3 Fauré: "tourments"
4 Fauré: "fleurit"
Text Authorship:
- by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), "Les Présents", appears in Contes cruels, in Conte d'Amour, no. 3 [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 Bernard-Louis Crocé-Spinelli (1871 - 1932), "Les Présents", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éditions 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Les Présents", op. 46 no. 1 (1886), published 1888 [ medium voice and piano ], Éditions J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georges Flé , "Les Présents", published 1898 [ high voice and piano ], from Poésies mises en musique, no. 6, Édition du Mercure de France [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Montfort (d. 1941), "Les Présents", published 1912 [ soprano and piano ], from Trois Poèmes, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Cavel Frères [sung text not yet checked]
- by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (1837 - 1917), "Les Présents", op. 74 no. 7 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, A. Quinzard [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Els presents", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Presents", copyright © 2003
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 61