by
Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938)
Un poète disait que, lorsqu'il était...
Language: French (Français)
Un poète disait que, lorsqu'il était jeune,
il fleurissait des vers comme un rosier des roses.
Lorsque je pense à elle, il me semble que jase
une fontaine intarissable dans mon cœur.
Comme sur le lys Dieu pose un parfum d'église,
comme il met du corail aux joues de la cerise,
je veux poser sur elle, avec dévotion,
la couleur d'un parfum, qui n'aura pas de nom.
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Un poète disait", 1999 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Un poète disait", 1914, published 1919 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Clairières dans le ciel, no. 4, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Un Poète disait que, lorsqu'il était", op. 355 no. 7 (1956), published 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 7, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "A poet said", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 67
A poet said
Language: English after the French (Français)
A poet said that when he was young
poems budded out of him like roses on a rose bush.
When I think of her, it feels like
there is an inexhaustible spring in my heart.
As God gives the lily the odor of a church
and tints the cherry's cheeks,
I want to give her with devotion
the colour of a perfume that shall have no name.
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