In exchange for a kiss on your scented skin

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by George Doncieux (1856 - 1903)

Translation © by Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan

Pour un baiser sur ta peau parfumée

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

 Pour un baiser sur ta peau parfumée,
 pour un baiser dans l'or de tes cheveux
 reçois mon âme toute, ô bien-aimée!
 Tu comblerais l'infini de mes voeux...
 Par un baiser!

 Pour un baiser distillé dans tes lèvres,
 profond, tenace et lent comme un adieu,
 souffrir le mal d'amour, et de ses fiévres brûler,
 languir et mourir peu à peu...
 dans un baiser!

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Text Authorship:

by George Doncieux (1856 - 1903), no title, appears in Feuilles mortes, Poésies posthumes, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1904 [author's text not yet checked 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 Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Pour un baiser", 1904, published 1905 [voice and piano], Éd. Ricordi [ sung text verified 1 time]

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

ENG English (Evelyn Chih-Yih Chan) , no title, copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 63

In exchange for a kiss on your scented...

Language: English after the French (Français)

[In exchange] for a kiss on your scented skin,
for a kiss amidst the gold of your hair,
accept my whole soul, oh beloved!
You would fill the infinity of my wishes...
with a kiss!

For a pure kiss in your lips,
deep, tenacious and slow like an adieu,
to suffer love-sickness and to burn with its fever[s],
to languish and to die, little by little...
in a kiss!

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Translation of title "Pour un baiser" = "For a kiss"

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by George Doncieux (1856 - 1903), no title, appears in Feuilles mortes, Poésies posthumes, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1904
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 69