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Vous êtes grande de tout un corps charmant Dont l'ombre est à vos pieds parmi les roses Qu'effeuillent vos mains en rêvant; La douce fleur pétale à pétale, se pose En papillons légers et lents La tige peu à peu s'envole de sa rose Et la flûte à l'écho s'accorde dans le vent. Vous êtes belle de tout un visage qui sourit De vos yeux clairs qui vous font douce A votre bouche Où le sourire en sa grâces'endolorit Comme l'espoir Qui lèvre à lèvre joint et touche Les lèvres de la tristesse qui lui sourit en son miroir. La flûte avec le vent s'est tue au fond du soir. Vous êtes belle de toute votre vie et de vos jours Qui, un à un, vers vous s'en viennent Menant l'amour Nu dans sa robe d'or et de laine Avec sa gourde et son diadème A vos roses il mêlera ses épis lourds Et, pas à pas, la main dans la sienne, Vous irez vers l'aurore et dans la nuit sereine Où s'est brisée avec le vent ma flûte vaine Vous entendrez Une à une sous les roses et les cyprès Chanter dans l'ombre les fontaines.
Authorship:
- by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936), "Madrigal lyrique", written 1900, appears in Les Médailles d'Argile, in 6. À travers l'an, no. 12, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1900 [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 Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Madrigal lyrique", 1910, published 1917, first performed 1911 [ high voice and orchestra or piano ], Éd. Société d'Édition 'Théâtre-Musique' [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Madrigal lyrique", 1912 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "Madrigal lyrique", op. 3 (Quatre poèmes) no. 4 (1903), published 1921, first performed 1906 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Rouart, Lerolle [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , "Lyric madrigal", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Research team for this page: Geoffrey Wieting , Garrett Medlock [Guest Editor]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 27
Word count: 196
You are tall, a body all charming Whose shadow is at your feet among the roses From which your hands pluck the leaves in dreaming; The sweet flower, petal by petal, behaves as Butterflies light and slow, The stem little by little is blown away from its rose And the flute tunes itself to the echo in the wind. You are beautiful, all a face that smiles, From your clear eyes which make you sweet To your mouth Where the smile in its grace [aches] Like hope Which, lip to lip, joins and touches The lips of sadness, who smiles at him in his mirror. The flute falls silent with the wind in the depths of evening. You are beautiful, all your life and your days Which, one by one, come toward you Leading love, Naked in his robe of gold and wool, With his flask and his crown; With your roses he will mix his heavy ears of wheat, And, step by step, [your] hand in [his], You will go toward the dawn, and in the serene night Where, with the wind, my vain flute is broken, You will hear, One by one, beneath the roses and the cypresses, The fountains singing in the shade.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Henri Francois-Joseph de Régnier (1864 - 1936), "Madrigal lyrique", written 1900, appears in Les Médailles d'Argile, in 6. À travers l'an, no. 12, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1900
This text was added to the website: 2020-03-31
Line count: 27
Word count: 206