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Parle-moi, que ta voix me touche ! Chaque parole sur ta bouche Est un écho mélodieux. Quand ta voix meurt dans mon oreille, Mon âme résonne et s'éveille, Comme un temple à la voix des [dieux]1. Un souffle, un mot puis un silence, C'est assez : mon âme devance Le sens interrompu des mots, Et comprend ta voix fugitive, Comme le gazon sur la rive Comprend le murmure des flots. Un son qui sur ta bouche expire, Une plainte un demi-sourire, Mon cœur entend tout sans effort : Le souffle même du zéphire Devient un ravissant accord.
M. de Rothschild sets stanzas 1, 3
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)1 Rothschild: "cieux"
Authorship
- by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), no title, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, in 3. Chant d'Amour, no. 4 [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 Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Chant d'amour", published 2009 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 34, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Delphin Marie Balleyguier (d. 1899), "Parle-moi" [ voice and piano ], from Les chansons des troubadours, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Ledentu [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amédée Dutacq (1848 - 1929), "Parle-moi !", published 1881-1882 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897), "Chant d'amour ", published [1863] [ medium voice and piano ], from Rimes et mélodies, 12 morceaux de chant, 2ème série, no. 5, Paris, Éditions E. Heu [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Parle-moi que ta voix me touche", 1917, from Trois chansons, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Parle-moi, que ta voix me touche!", stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
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Line count: 17
Word count: 97
Speak to me, so that your voice touches me! Every word from your mouth Is a melodious echo. When your voice dies in my ear, My soul resonates and awakens Like a temple to the voice of [the gods]1. A breath, a word, and then silence; It is enough. My soul outstrips the interrupted meaning of the words, and understands your fugitive voice as the grass along the shore understands the murmur of the waves. A sound that dies on your lips, A lament with a half-smile -- my heart listens to everything without effort: even the breath of a breeze becomes a delightful chord.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Rothschild: "heaven"
Authorship
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2012 by Emily Ezust
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- a text in French (Français) by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), no title, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, in 3. Chant d'Amour, no. 4
This text was added to the website: 2012-11-20
Line count: 17
Word count: 104