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Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme. Vous m'avez regardé longtemps comme un ciel bleu. J'ai mis votre regard à l'ombre de [vos]1 yeux... Que ce regard était passionné et calme...
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Boulanger: "mes"
Authorship
- by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 17, first published 1906 [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 Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Vous m'avez regardé", 1999 [ high voice, flute, and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 17 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lili Boulanger (1893 - 1918), "Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme", 1914, published 1919 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Clairières dans le ciel, no. 8, Ricordi [sung text checked 1 time]
- by André Jolivet (1905 - 1974), "Vous m’avez regardé", 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Deux poésies de Francis Jammes, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Vous m'avez regardé avec toute votre âme", op. 355 no. 17 (1956), published 1957 [ baritone and piano ], from Tristesses, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Vous m'avez regardé...", 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies choisies, no. 13 [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "You looked at me with all your soul", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 31
You looked at me with all your soul. You looked at me for a long time, like a blue sky. I put your glance in the shadow of my eyes... How passionate and calm it was...
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- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2003 by Faith J. Cormier, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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- a text in French (Français) by Francis Jammes (1868 - 1938), no title, appears in Clairières dans le ciel, in Tristesses, no. 17, first published 1906
This text was added to the website: 2004-01-27
Line count: 4
Word count: 36