...of a woman by her husband. (Anonymous, set by (Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau)) (The LiederNet Archive: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)

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by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Pierre Cao

...d'une femme par son mari

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): ENG

Objet de ma tendre pitié
Reçois de moi, chère moitié
Ce tombeau qu'aucun ne t'envie.

Je dois bien justement te rendre cet honneur
Car le dernier jour de ta vie fut le premier,
Fut le premier de mon bonheur.

Authorship

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, 18th century [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 Pierre-E.-L. Rousseau (1889 - 1939), "...d'une femme par son mari", op. 73 no. 1 (1936), from Cinq épitaphes, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Pierre Cao) , "...of a woman by her husband.", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this text: Pierre Cao

This text was added to the website: 2009-10-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 39

...of a woman by her husband.

Language: English after the French (Français)

Object of my tender pity
Accept from me, dear half
This tomb that nobody envies you.

I must well justly pay tribute to you
Because the last day of your life
Was the first of my happiness.

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a text in French (Français) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, 18th century

This text was added to the website: 2009-10-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 37