LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Jacques Clary Jean Normand (1848 - 1931)

Si vous étiez fleur, ô ma bien aimée !
Language: French (Français) 
Si vous étiez fleur, ô ma bien aimée !
    La fleur parfumée
    Au corselet vert,
Je serais zéphyr, et viendrais fidèle,
    Vous frôler de l'aile
    En glissant dans l'air.

Si quelque beau soir vous étiez l'étoile
    Qui brille sans voile
    Dans les cieux discrets,
Je serais rayon, et dans ma lumière
    Belle prisonnière
    Je vous bercerais.

Si vous deveniez la naïade blonde
    Moi je serais l'onde
    Du ruisseau jaseur,
Et vous charmerais, dans la grotte obscure,
    De mon doux murmure
    Et de ma fraîcheur.

Mais puisqu aujourd'hui vous êtes la femme
    Qui [ravit]1 mon âme,
    Je serais heureux
D'être seulement, pour calmer mes fièvres,
    Le sang de vos lèvres,
    L'or de vos cheveux !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   J. Massenet 

About the headline (FAQ)

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Massenet: "séduit"
2 Massenet: "ma fièvre"

Text Authorship:

  • by Jacques Clary Jean Normand (1848 - 1931), appears in À tire-d'aile. Poésies, in 2. En aimant, no. 11, first published 1878 [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 Joseph Depret , "Si vous étiez fleur", published [1894] [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Souhait", 1880, published 1880 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 24
Word count: 113

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris