Les indolents | Bah ! malgré les destins jaloux

Les indolents

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Bah ! malgré les destins jaloux,
Mourons ensemble, voulez-vous ?
— La proposition est rare.

— Le rare est le bon. Donc mourons
Comme dans les Décamérons.
— Hi ! hi ! hi ! quel amant bizarre !

— Bizarre, je ne sais. Amant
Irréprochable, assurément.
Si vous voulez, mourons ensemble ?

— Monsieur, vous raillez mieux encor
Que vous n'aimez, et parlez d'or ;
Mais taisons-nous, si bon vous semble ? —

Si bien que ce soir-là Tircis
Et Dorimène, à deux assis
Non loin de deux silvains hilares,

Eurent l'inexpiable tort
D'ajourner une exquise mort.
Hi ! hi ! hi ! les amants bizarres.

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 41-42.

Note: The em dash (—) at the end of the second line has been moved to the beginning of the third line as to match the formatting in subsequent editions. The ampersand (&) as appears in the first publication is changed to "et".

Text Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Les indolents", written 1866, appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 18, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1869 [author's text checked 2 times 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 Jacques Beers (1902 - 1947), "Les indolents", published 1943 [ voice and piano ], from Six chants de Paul Verlaine, no. 4, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard Dreyfus Gonzales du Premio-Real (1876 - 1941), as Jean Dora, "Les Indolents", 1928, published 1928 [ voice and piano ], from Heures grises, no. 8, Paris, Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
by Ignace Lelieu , "Les indolents", published 1946 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Koch et Korselt [sung text not yet checked]
by Ignace Lilien (1897 - 1964), "Les indolents", 1934 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Les indolents", 1908, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Le Parc, no. 12, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre Thilloy (b. 1970), "Les indolents", 1996, published 1997 [ baritone and piano ], from Verlainexquises, no. 2, Éd. du compositeur [sung text not yet checked]
by Rémy-Michel Trotier (b. 1970), "Les indolents", 1988, published 1997 [ medium voice and piano ], Édition de L'Armateur [sung text not yet checked]

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

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2012-01-20
Line count: 18
Word count: 94