J'ai voulu ce matin te rapporter des roses ;
Mais j'en avais tant pris dans mes ceintures closes,
Que les nœuds trop serrés n'ont pu les contenir.

Les nœuds ont éclaté : les roses envolées,
Dans le vent, à la mer s'en sont toutes allées :
Elles ont suivi l'eau pour ne plus revenir.

La vague en a paru rouge et comme enflammée :
Ce soir, [ma]1 robe encore en est tout embaumée.
[Respirez-en]2 sur moi l'odorant souvenir.

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¹ Canal: "ta"
² Canal, Covatti-Dussaut, Crickboom: "Respires-en"

Text Authorship:

• by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786 - 1859), "Les roses de Saâdi", written 1848, appears in Poésies inédites [1860] [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 Georges Antoine (1892 - 1918), "Les roses de Saâdi" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Aulagnon (d. 1957), "Les Roses", published [1913] [ soprano and piano ], Paris, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fernand Bodé (d. 1945), "Les roses de Sâadi", copyright © 1916 [ medium voice, piano, and violin or cello or flute ad libitum ], from 5 Chants avec accompagnement de piano (violon ou violoncelle ad libitum), no. 1, Éd. Bourlant-Ladam [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henriette Boorn-Coclet (1866 - 1945), "Les roses" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Eugène Baudoux et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Michel Bosc (b. 1963), "Les roses de Sâadi", op. 136 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by François de Breteuil (1892 - 1972), "Les roses de Sâadi", <<1921 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marguerite Canal (1890 - 1978), "Les roses de Saâdi", published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], from Cent mélodies, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Maxime Jamin [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Gérard de Chambéret (1887 - 1941), "Les Roses de Saadi", <<1920 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. musicales R. Furnari [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hélène Covatti-Dussaut (1910 - 2005), "Les Roses de Saadi", published 2017 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 1, Clichy, Éd. Musicales Artchipel [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Mathieu Crickboom (1871 - 1947), "Les Roses de Saadi", op. 12 (Dix Mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 4 (1916) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by A. Delacroix , "Les Roses de Saâdi", published [1919] [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet, successeur [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eva Dell'Acqua (1856 - 1930), "Les Roses de Saadi", 1913 [ medium voice, piano, violin ], Bruxelles, Éd. Schott Frères [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Marc Delmas (1885 - 1931), "Les Roses de Saadi", op. 28 (Cinq mélodies) no. 5 [ voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Madeleine Dubois (1892 - 1969), "Les Roses de Saadi" [ medium voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Éd. J.-B. Katto [sung text not yet checked]
• by Raúl Hugo Espoile (1889 - 1958), "Les roses de Saâdi" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jacques de Fontenailles (1888 - 1914), "Les roses de Saadi", published 1912-24 [ medium voice and piano ], from 14 Mélodies, no. 1, Éd. Rouart, Lerolle et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
• by Irène Fuerison (1875 - 1931), "Les roses de Saadi", op. 61 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Albert Huybrechts (1899 - 1938), "Les roses de Saâdi", 1919, published 1955 [ high voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Édition CeBeDem [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gaston Knosp (1874 - 1942), "Les Roses de Saadi", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 4, Bruxelles, Éd. Schott Frères [sung text not yet checked]
• by G. Lange-Clairny , "Les Roses de Saadi", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Mathias (1826 - 1910), "Les roses de Saâdi", published 1889 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text not yet checked]
• by Fabert Mayer , "Les Roses de Saadi", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jeanne Minsmer (1887 - 1957), "Les Roses de Saadi", op. 10, published 1935 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Petit , "Les Roses de Saadi", <<1911 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lola Phinney , "Les Roses de Saadi", <<1909 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 2, Éd. Jules Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by René Rabey (1878 - 1958), "Les Roses de Saadi" [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. F.D. Marchetti [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau (1882 - 1955), "Les roses de Saadi", published 1920 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eugène Saunier , "Les Roses de Saadi", <<1922 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Imprimerie française de musique [sung text not yet checked]
• by Émile Selmer , "Les Roses de Saadi", op. 10 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. de l'auteur [sung text not yet checked]
• by Eric Tanguy (b. 1968), "Les roses de Saâdi", 2007, published 2007 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "Les roses de Saadi ", subtitle: "Orientale", 1879 [ medium voice and piano ], from 25 Mélodies de J.B. Weckerlin, no. 9, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text not yet checked]
• by Henri Woollett (1864 - 1936), "Les roses", 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], from Marceline ou la Vie d'une Femme, huit mélodies sur des poèmes de Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, no. 3, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lex Zwaap (1919 - 1988), as Lex van Delden, "Les roses de Saâdi", op. 1 no. 4 (1937) [ soprano, flute, clarinet, and string trio ], from L'amour, 4 liederen en 3 interludes, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]

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

• ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2008-07-25
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