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by Augustine-Malvina Souville Blanchecotte (1830 - 1878)

Oh ! je ne savais pas qu'il pouvait...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
[Oh]1 ! je ne savais pas qu'il pouvait m'être doux
  Après tant de jours de misère,
De me ressouvenir et de parler de vous
  Comme un sœur ferait d'un frère.

Tout nous a séparés et tout nous réunit,
  Ma pensée est votre pensée ;
Un sentiment de paix que rien ne définit
  Vient visiter la délaissée !

Nous sommes aimés et nous aimons encor,
  C'est là le meilleur de nous-mêmes !
Et quels que soient les coups dont nous frappe le sort,
  Je t'aime, et je sais que tu m'aimes !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   R. Hahn 

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Confirmed with Augustine-Malvina Souville Blanchecotte, Les Militantes, Poésies, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, 1875, page 64.

1 Hahn: "Ah"

Text Authorship:

  • by Augustine-Malvina Souville Blanchecotte (1830 - 1878), no title, appears in Les Militantes, Poésies, in 1. Combats, no. 34 [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 Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "La délaissée", published 1898 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 2ème volume, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "The Forsaken Woman", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 87

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