by
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
Language: French (Français)
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
Avec tes lèvres sans le dire
Cette rose ne l'interromps
Qu'à verser un silence pire
Jamais de chants ne lancent prompts
Le scintillement du sourire
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
Avec tes lèvres sans le dire
Muet muet entre les ronds
Sylphe dans la pourpre d'empire
Un baiser flambant se déchire
Jusqu'aux pointes des ailerons
Si tu veux nous nous aimerons
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Stéphane Mallarmé, Poésies, Nouvelle Revue française, 1914 (8e éd.) (p. 113). First published in the revue La Plume, March 15, 1896.
Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by George Beach (c1893 - 1951), "Si tu veux nous nous aimerons", subtitle: "Rondel", published 1924 [ high voice and piano ], in the supplement to the journal Le courrier musical, April 1, 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vittorio Gui (1885 - 1975), "Rondel", 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Pizzi & C. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Tibor Harsányi (1898 - 1954), "Rondel", 1943 [ high voice and piano ], from Cinq chants nostalgiques, no. 4, Éd. Durand? [sung text not yet checked]
- by Wilhelm Killmayer (1927 - 2017), "Rondel II", 1993-5, first performed 1995 [ coloratura soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Huit Poésies de Mallarmé, no. 4, Mainz, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
- by Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau (1889 - 1939), as Pierre Vellones, "Rondel", op. 24 no. 2 (1929) [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes de Mallarmé, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rudi Spring (1962 - 2025), "Rondel II", op. 96 no. 9 (2018) [ soprano and piano ], from Livre de Mélodies Françaises, no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rémy-Michel Trotier (b. 1970), "Si tu veux, nous nous aimerons", 1991, published 1997 [ baritone and piano ], from Deux poèmes de S. Mallarmé, no. 1, Éd. de L'Armateur [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Emily Ezust
[Administrator] , Grant Hicks
[Guest Editor] This text was added to the website: 2012-03-05
Line count: 13
Word count: 68
If you wish we will make love
Language: English after the French (Français)
If you wish we will make love
With your lips without saying it
This rose do not interrupt it
Only to spill out a worse silence
Never are songs quick to set off
The sparkle of a smile
If you wish we will make love
With your lips without saying it
Mute mute amid the rounds
Sylph in imperial purple
A fiery kiss spreads itself
To the tips of its wings
If you wish we will make love
About the headline (FAQ)
Translations of titles:
"Rondel" = "Rondel"
"Rondel II" = "Rondel II"
"Si tu veux nous nous aimerons" = "If you wish we will make love"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2026 by Grant Hicks, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
Contact: licenses@email.lieder.example.net
Based on:
This text was added to the website: 2026-04-08
Line count: 13
Word count: 78
