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by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux (1636 - 1711)

Voici les lieux charmants, où mon âme...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Voici les lieux charmants, où mon âme ravie
    Passoit à contempler Sylvie.
Ces tranquilles momens si doucement perdus.
Que je l'aimois alors ! Que je la trouvois belle !
Mon cœur, vous soupirez au nom de l'infidèle :
Avez-vous oublié que vous ne l'aimez plus ?

C'est ici que souvent errant dans les prairies,
    Ma main des fleurs les plus chéries
Lui faisoit des présens si tendrement reçus.
Que je l'aimois alors ! Que je la trouvois belle !
Mon cœur, vous soupirez au nom de línfidèle :
Avez-vous oublié que vous ne l'aimez plus ?

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres Complètes de Boileau. Tome Premier, Paris, Hachette, 1875, page 260, in Poésies diverses.


Text Authorship:

  • by Nicolas Boileau Despreaux (1636 - 1711), "Vers sur Marie Poncher de Bretouville", written 1671 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Voici les lieux charmants, où mon âme ravie", 1948 [ medium voice and bassoon ], from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes du XVIIème siècle, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Eugène David-Bernard (b. 1873), "Sylvie" [ high voice and piano ], from Pastels effacés, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Georges Maillochon [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Voici les lieux charmants", 1919, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Victorine Farrenc (1826 - 1859), "Sylvie" [ high voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edmond Hippeau (1849 - 1921), "Sylvie", op. 14, published [1904] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Fromont [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Michel Lambert (1610 - 1696), "Voici les lieux charmants où mon âme ravie", 1671 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "Souvenirs" [ medium voice and piano ], from Chants d'autrefois: recueil des premières mélodies de V. Massé, no. 11, Éditions Léon Grus [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francis Waël-Munk , "Souvenirs", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies dans le style ancien, no. 1, Éd. Marcel Mercier [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in French (Français), [adaptation] ; composed by Pauline Viardot-García.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2004-04-21
Line count: 12
Word count: 88

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