by Félix Arvers (1806 - 1850)
Mon âme a son secret, ma vie a son...
Language: French (Français)
[Mon âme]1 a son secret, [ma vie]2 a son mystère : Un amour éternel en un moment conçu. Le mal est sans [espoir]3, aussi j'ai dû le taire, Et celle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su. [Hélas !]4 j'aurai passé près d'elle inaperçu, Toujours à ses côtés, et [pourtant]5 solitaire, Et j'aurai jusqu'au bout fait mon temps sur la terre, N'osant rien demander et n'ayant rien reçu. Pour elle, [quoique Dieu l'ait]6 faite douce et tendre, Elle [ira]7 son chemin, distraite et sans entendre [Ce murmure d'amour élevé sur ses pas ;]8 À l'austère devoir pieusement fidèle, Elle dira, lisant ces vers tout remplis d'elle : « Quelle est donc cette femme ? » et ne comprendra pas.
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View text without footnotes1 Lemariey: "Mon cœur"; Bizet, Thomé, Van Straten: "Ma vie"
2 Bizet, Lemariey, Van Straten: "mon âme" (further changes may exist for Lemariey and Van Straten but are not shown above) ; Widor: "mon cœur"
3 Bizet: "remède"
4 Bizet: "Ainsi"
5 Bizet: "toujours"
6 Bizet: "que le ciel a"
7 Bizet: "suit"
8 Bizet: "La murmure d'amour élevé sur ses pas."; Widor: "Ce cœur vibrant d'amour enchaîné sur ses pas !"
Text Authorship:
- by Félix Arvers (1806 - 1850), "Sonnet imité de l'italien", written 1833, appears in Mes heures perdues, Poésies, Paris, Éd. Fournier jeune, first published 1833 [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 Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Ma vie a son secret", op. 21 no. 8 (1868), published 1873 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text checked 1 time]
- by René de Boisdeffre (1838 - 1906), "Sonnet d'Arvers", op. 53 no. 1, published [1893] [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, recueil 4, no. 1, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Martial Caillebotte (1853 - 1910), "Sonnet" [ medium voice and piano ], from Scènes et Mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Dusautoy (1850 - 1915), "Sonnet d'Arvers imité de l'Italien", op. 50 no. 1, published [1898] [ reciter and piano ], from Deux adaptations symphoniques, no. 1, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luciano Gallet (1893 - 1931), "Le Sonnet d'Arvers", op. 1 (1918) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Édouard Garnier (1821 - 1887), "Mon âme a son secret", published <<1878 [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt sonnets mis en musique, no. 19, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Gédalge (1856 - 1926), "Sonnet d'Arvers", 1879 [ medium voice and piano ], unpublished but available through Gallica [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean Eugène Gaston Lemaire (1864 - 1928), "Sonnet d'Arvers", published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Marcel Mercier [sung text not yet checked]
- by Madeleine Lemariey (flourished c1900-1915), "Sonnet d'Arvers", <<1913 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Pessard (1843 - 1917), "Sonnet d'Arvers", published 1891 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Casimir Renard (b. 1853), "Sonnet d'Arvers ", op. 237, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. F. Durdilly, Ch. Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eugène Sauzay (1809 - 1901), "Sonnet d'Arvers", published [1877] [ baritone and piano ], Paris, Éd. Maison G. Flaxland, Durand, Schoenewerck et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Eric Tanguy (b. 1968), "Mes heures perdues", 2007, published 2007 [ baritone and piano ], Éd. Salabert [sung text not yet checked]
- by François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Sonnet d'Arvers", published [1879] [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 4, Paris, Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léon Van Straten , "Sonnet d'Arvers", published 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Sonnet d'Arvers" [ voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 32, note: published later as op. 22 no. 2 by an unknown publisher, as reprinted by Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "My life has its secret", copyright © 2019
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2008-08-11
Line count: 14
Word count: 126