Ils se disent, ma colombe,
Que tu rêves, morte encore,
Sous la pierre d'une tombe :
[Mais pour l'âme qui t'adore]1,
Tu t'éveilles [ranimée]2,
Ô pensive bien-aimée !

Par les blanches nuits d'étoiles,
Dans la brise qui murmure,
Je caresse tes longs voiles,
Ta mouvante chevelure,
Et tes ailes demi-closes
Qui voltigent sur les roses !

Ô délices ! je respire
Tes divines tresses blondes !
Ta voix pure, cette lyre,
Suit la vague sur les ondes,
Et, suave, les effleure,
Comme un cygne qui se pleure !

G. Schubert sets stanzas 1, 3

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Confirmed with Théodore de Banville, Poésies complètes: Les exilés: Odelettes, Améthystes, Rimes dorées, Rondels, Les Princesses, Trente-Six Ballades Joyeuses, Paris, G. Charpentier et Cie, 1887, page 129.

¹ Gounod: "Non, tu vis que je t'adore!"; G. Schubert: "tu vis, car je t'adore!"
² Hahn: "réanimée"

Authorship:

• by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "L'énamourée", written 1859, appears in Les Exilés, first published 1867 [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 Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "L'âme de la morte", CG. 398a (1860), published 1860 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "L'âme d'un ange", subtitle: "La rondinella pellegrina", op. CG. 398b (1860), published 1863 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "L'énamourée", 1891?, published 1892 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Martin Lunssens (1871 - 1944), "L'énamourée" [ contralto or mezzo-soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georgine Schubert (1840 - 1878), "L'âme d'un ange", published 1880, stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ], from Lieder und Gesänge, Erste Folge, no. 12, Dresden, Hoffarth [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Peter Low) , no title, copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
• SPA Spanish (Español) (Raedcavid De Jesús) , "La enamorada", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Sharon Krebs [Guest Editor] , Erkki Pullinen

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