Je me bâtirais à votre porte une hutte de saule

Translation by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873)

Make me a willow cabin at your gate

Language: English

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!

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Authorship:

by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act I, Scene 5 [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 David Werner Amram (b. 1930), "Make me a willow cabin", published 1972 [tenor and piano or orchestra], from Five Shakespeare Songs, no. 3, New York, Peters [
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FRE French (Français) (François-Victor Hugo) , title unknown

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Word count: 67

Je me bâtirais à votre porte une hutte...

Language: French (Français) after the English

Je me bâtirais à votre porte une hutte de saule,
et je redemanderais à mon âme à votre maison ;
j'écrirais de loyales cantilènes sur mon amour dédaigné,
et je les chanterais bien haut dans l'ombre de la nuit ;
je crierais votre nom aux échos des collines,
et je forcerais la commère babillarde des airs à vociférer !
Olivia ! Oh ! vous n'auriez pas de repos
entre ces deux éléments, l'air et la terre,
que vous n'eussiez pitié de moi.

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Authorship:

by François-Victor Hugo (1828 - 1873) [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in English by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in Twelfth Night: or, What You Will, Act I, Scene 5

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Researcher for this text: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-10-25
Line count: 9
Word count: 82