by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)
L'âme évaporée et souffrante
Language: French (Français)
L'âme évaporée et souffrante, L'âme douce, l'âme odorante Des lys divins que j'ai cueillis Dans le jardin de ta pensée, Où donc les vents l'ont-ils chassée, Cette âme adorable des lys? N'est-il plus un parfum qui reste De la suavité céleste Des jours où tu m'enveloppais D'une vapeur surnaturelle, Faite d'espoir, d'amour fidèle, De béatitude et de paix?...
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Text Authorship:
- by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Romance", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Amour, no. 32, Paris Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Romance", L. 65/(79) no. 2 (1891) [ voice and piano ], from Deux Romances, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "L'âme des lys", op. 63 no. 4 [ high voice and piano ], from Soirs d'été, no. 4, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Romance", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Romanze", copyright © 2006, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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