by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles
Language: French (Français)
Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles, Vers votre jardin si beau, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, [Des ailes comme]1 l'oiseau. Ils voleraient, étincelles, Vers votre foyer qui rit, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, [Des ailes comme]1 l'esprit. Près de vous, purs et fidèles, Ils accourraient, nuit et jour, Si mes vers avaient des ailes, [Des ailes comme]1 l'amour !
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Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, written 1841, appears in Les Contemplations, in 2. Livre deuxiême -- L'âme en fleur, no. 2, first published 1856 [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 Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki (1846 - 1919), "Mes vers fuiraient, doux et frêles", op. 9 (Deux chansons de Victor Hugo) no. 2, published 1890 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Henry Altès (1826 - 1895), "Mes vers fuiraient doux et frêles", op. 26 no. 6, published [1865?] [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from 15 Mélodies, no. 6, Paris, Éd. Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
- by Léopold Amat (1814 - 1872), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", published [1862] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", published <<1912 [ voice and piano ], from Seize mélodies, no. 36, Paris, Maurice Sénart, B. Roudanez et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Franz Behr (1837 - 1898), as Charles Godard, "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", subtitle: "Message" [ voice and piano ], Paris: J, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Auguste Chapuis (1858 - 1933), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", published 1909 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éditions Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by César Antonovich Cui (1835 - 1918), "Mes vers fuiraient", op. 32 (Sept Mélodies) no. 2, published 1886 [ voice and piano ], St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co. [sung text not yet checked]
- by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Message", op. 147 no. 1 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Charles Tomlinson Griffes (1884 - 1920), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", A. 1 (1901) [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Reynaldo Hahn (1874 - 1947), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", 1888, published 1895 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies - 1er volume, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes !" [ high voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, vol. 2, no. 10, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Caspar René Hirschfeld (b. 1965), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", 2017 [ high voice, guitar, and flute ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Harold C. King (1895 - 1984), "Mes vers fuiraient", 1981, from Trois chansons d'amour et une épigramme, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes !", published 1877-1878 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique, no. 77 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Marcel Mihalovici (1898 - 1985), "Mes vers fuiraient", op. 25 no. 2 (1927), published 1932 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Romances de V. Hugo, no. 2, Éd. R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
- by Napoléon-Henri Reber (1807 - 1880), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", published 1863 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Richault [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", subtitle: "Romance", published [1865] [ voice and piano ], Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text checked 1 time]
- by François Luc Joseph Thomé (1850 - 1909), as Francis Thomé, "Mes vers fuiraient", published 1910 [ reciter and piano ], from Trois Poésies de Victor Hugo, no. 2, Paris, Éditions Henry Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Anselm Vinée (1847 - 1921), "Des Ailes !", op. 4 no. 6, published [1893] [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept Mélodies sur des vers de Victor Hugo, no. 6, Éd. Durdilly [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes" [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Flaxland [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Wormser (1851 - 1926), "Si mes vers avaient des ailes", published [1916] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Édition Marcel Lyon [sung text checked 1 time]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Akhilles Nikolayevich Alferaki.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 2016
- JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , "Mis versos volarían dulces y frágiles", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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