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by François Coppée (1842 - 1908)

Le soir, au coin du feu, j'ai pensé bien...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Le soir, au coin du feu, j'ai pensé bien des fois
A la mort d'un oiseau, quelque part, dans les bois.
Pendant les tristes jours de l'hiver monotone,
Les pauvres nids déserts, les nids qu'on abandonne,

Se balancent au vent sur le ciel gris de fer.
Oh ! comme les oiseaux doivent mourir l'hiver !
Pourtant lorsque viendra le temps des violettes,
Nous ne trouverons pas leurs délicats squelettes

Dans le gazon d'avril où nous irons courir.
Est-ce que les oiseaux se cachent, pour mourir ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by François Coppée (1842 - 1908), "La mort des oiseaux", appears in Promenades et Intérieurs, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre [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 Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Soirée d'hiver", 1883, published 1921? [ high voice and piano ], Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charlotte Devéria, née Thomas (1856 - 1885), "Hiver", <<1877 [ medium voice and piano ], from 16 Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "La mort des oiseaux", 1914, published 1924 [ tenor and piano ], Paris, Éd. Buffet-Crampon & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Carlos López Buchardo (1881 - 1948), "La mort des oiseaux", c1903 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Maurice Pesse (1881 - 1943), "La Mort des oiseaux", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix Mélodies (2ème série), no. 3, Paris, Éd. A. Bourlant-Ladam [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2010-05-15
Line count: 10
Word count: 83

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