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by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval

Je suis le Ténébreux, ‑ le Veuf, ‑...
Language: French (Français) 
Je suis le Ténébreux, - le Veuf, - l'Inconsolé,
Le Prince d'Aquitaine à la Tour abolie :
Ma seule Etoile est morte, - et mon luth constellé
Porte le Soleil noir de la Mélancolie.

Dans la nuit du Tombeau, Toi qui m'as consolé,
Rends-moi le Pausilippe et la mer d'Italie,
La fleur qui plaisait tant à mon coeur désolé,
Et la treille où le Pampre à la Rose s'allie.

Suis-je Amour ou Phébus ?... Lusignan ou Biron ?
Mon front est rouge encor du baiser de la Reine ;
J'ai rêvé dans la Grotte où nage la sirène...

Et j'ai deux fois vainqueur traversé l'Achéron :
Modulant tour à tour sur la lyre d'Orphée
Les soupirs de la Sainte et les cris de la Fée. 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Gérard Labrunie (1808 - 1855), as Gérard de Nerval, "El Desdichado" [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 Jean-Guy Bailly (1925 - 2009), "El Desdichado", 1995 [ baritone and orchestra ], from Les Chimères, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ferenc Farkas (1905 - 2000), "El Desdichado", 1993, copyright © 1996 [ voice and piano ], from Orpheus respiciens, no. 8, Ascolta Publishing [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Donald Ibrahim Swann (1923 - 1994), "Je suis le Ténébreux", c1946, published 1998 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six poetic songs, no. 3, London, Thames Publishing House ; in The songs of Donald Swann, volume 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-03-02
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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