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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Non, les baisers d'amour n'éveillent...
Language: French (Français) 
Non, les baisers d'amour n'éveillent point les morts !
Baise l'amour vivant de ta lèvre divine ;
Et le dernier soupir que rendra ta poitrine
Ne sera point chargé d'inutiles remords.

Non, les baisers d'amour n'éveillent point les morts.
N'en crois pas là-dessus les ballades anciennes !
Chantez, chantez toujours, lèvres musiciennes,
La chanson des amours qui vivent sans remords.

On ne fait point l'amour dans le lit froid des morts !
On ne se cherche pas des yeux dans la nuit noire.
N'en crois pas là-dessus quelque ancienne histoire ;
Sous terre on n'a pas plus d'amour que de remords.
 
Viens, aime-moi d'amour, ne pensons pas aux morts !
Ne montre pas le ciel de ta belle main blanche.
Cueilles-en les beaux fruits de l'amour, sur la branche
Où ne s'est pas glissé l'affreux ver du remords.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Debussy 

C. Debussy sets stanzas 1, 3-4

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Confirmed with Maurice Bouchor, Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, Paris, Charpentier et Cie., 1876, pages 77-78.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, written 1876, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 1. La fleur des eaux, no. 36, Paris, Charpentier et Cie., first published 1876 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Les baisers d'amour", alternate title: "Romance", L. 23/(48) (1881), stanzas 1,3-4 [ voice and piano ], unpublished [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Barbara Miller

This text was added to the website: 2012-03-27
Line count: 16
Word count: 132

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