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by Charles Le Goffic (1863 - 1932)

Vos yeux
Language: French (Français) 
Je compare vos yeux à ces claires fontaines
Où les astres d’argent et les étoiles d’or
Font miroiter, la nuit, des flammes incertaines.

Vienne à glisser le vent sur leur onde qui dort,
Il faut que l’astre émigre et que l’étoile meure,
Pour renaître, passer, luire et s’éteindre encor.

Si cruels maintenant, si tendres tout à l’heure,
Vos beaux yeux sont pareils à ces flots décevants,
Et l’amour ne s’y mire et l’amour n’y demeure

Que le temps d’un reflet sous le frisson des vents.

Confirmed with Charles Le Goffic, Poésies complètes, Librairie Plon, 1922 (p. 21-22). The poem is preceded by the following epigraph:

…Et les yeux des jeunes filles
y sont comme ces claires fontaines
où sur un fond d’herbes ondulées se
mire le ciel.

Ernest Renan.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Le Goffic (1863 - 1932), "Vos Yeux", written 1889, appears in Amour Breton, Poème, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1889 [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 Marcel Fichefet (1899 - 1991), "Vos Yeux", op. 1c (<<1922) [ medium voice and piano ], from Premières mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Édition Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Lonque (1900 - 1967), "Vos yeux", op. 3 (1924) [ soprano and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz (1864 - 1955), "Vos yeux", 1905 [ high voice and piano ], Nancy, Éd. Dupont-Metzner [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-03-13
Line count: 10
Word count: 85

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