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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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View original text (without footnotes)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"
Text 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
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 83
They say, my dove, that you are still dead and dreaming beneath a tombstone; but you awaken, revived, for the soul that adores you, oh pensive beloved! Through the sleepless nights, in the murmuring breeze, I caress your long veils, your swaying hair and your half-closed wings which flutter among the roses. Oh delights! I breathe your divine blond tresses! Your pure voice, a kind of lyre, moves on the swell of the waters and touches them gently, suavely, like a lamenting swan!
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Translations of titles:
"L'âme de la morte" = "The soul of the dead one"
"L'âme d'un ange" = "The soul of an angel"
"L'énamourée" = "The beloved one"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2002 by Peter Low, (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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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "L'énamourée", written 1859, appears in Les Exilés, first published 1867
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 83