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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Les pavots
Language: French (Français) 
Lorsque vient le soir de la vie,
Le printemps attriste le cœur :
De sa corbeille épanouie
Il s’exhale un parfum moqueur.
De toutes ces fleurs qu’il étale,
Dont l’amour ouvre le pétale,
Dont les prés éblouissent l’œil,
Hélas ! il suffit que l’on cueille
De quoi parfumer d’une feuille
L’oreiller du lit d’un cercueil.
Cueillez-moi ce pavot sauvage
Qui croît à l’ombre de ces blés :
On dit qu’il en coule un breuvage
Qui ferme les yeux accablés.
J’ai trop veillé ; mon âme est lasse
De ces rêves qu’un rêve chasse.
Que me veux-tu, printemps vermeil ?
Loin de moi ces lis et ces roses !
Que faut-il aux paupières closes ?
La fleur qui garde le sommeil !

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), "Les pavots", written 1847, appears in Méditations poétiques [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 Guillaume Lekeu (1870 - 1894), "Les pavots", V. 80 (1887), published 1909 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Thierry Machuel (b. 1962), "Les pavots", published 1997 [ low voice and piano ], Éd. Puls'Art [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2004-05-07
Line count: 20
Word count: 113

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