Plaintive tourterelle,
Qui roucoule toujours,
Veux-tu prêter ton aile
Pour servir mes amours !

Comme toi, pauvre amante,
Bien loin de mon ramier,
Je pleure et me lamente
Sans pouvoir l'oublier.

Vole, et que ton pied rose
Sur l'arbre ou sur la tour
Jamais ne se repose,
Car je languis d'amour.

Évite, ô ma colombe,
La halte des palmiers
Et tous les toits où tombe
La neige des ramiers.

Va droit sur sa fenêtre,
Près du palais du roi ;
Donne-lui cette lettre
Et deux baisers pour moi.

Puis sur mon sein en flamme,
Qui ne peut s'apaiser,
Reviens, avec son âme,
Reviens te reposer.

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First published within the setting by Allyre Bureau.

Text Authorship:

• by Pierre-Jules-Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872), "Plaintive tourterelle", written 1840, appears in Émaux et Camées, first published 1840 [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 Hermann Bemberg (1861 - 1931), "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1895 [ alto or baritone and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Bessand , "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1931 [ medium voice and piano ], from [9] Mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 9, Société Anonyme Française Chappell [sung text not yet checked]
• by Allyre Bureau (1810 - 1859), "La colombe messagère - Plaintive tourterelle", 1840 [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies pour chant et piano (poésies de Gautier), no. 2, Paris, Catelin [sung text not yet checked]
• by Auguste Charles Cœdès (1840 - 1884), "Plaintive tourterelle - Romance", published 1875 [ soprano and piano ], from Soirées d'automne, no. 11, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcel Degouy (1862 - 1937), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1912 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from 7 Mélodies pour voix de femme, no. 7, Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ange Flégier (1846 - 1927), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1892, published 1893? [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1ère volume, no. 4, Paris, Colombier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Hector Michel Fraggi (1882 - 1944), "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1907, Paris, Vieu [sung text not yet checked]
• by Philippe Gaubert (1879 - 1941), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1904, published 1907 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Serge Gut (1927 - 2014), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1955 [ soprano and piano ], from Deux mélodies pour soprano et piano, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Hébert (1858 - 1931), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1882-9?, published 1882-9? [ high voice and piano ], from L'album du chanteur / chansonnier, no. 2, Québec, Lavigne [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustave Léon Huberti (1843 - 1910), "Plaintive tourterelle" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Georges Itasse , "Chant d'exil", published 1898 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adam Laussel (1845 - 1893), "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1900, Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869 - 1948), "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1892 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Désiré Martin, dit Martin-Beaulieu (1791 - 1863), "Plaintive tourterelle", published 1842 [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Meissonnier [sung text not yet checked]
• by Lydie Michaïloff (1893 - 1979), "Plaintive Tourterelle", <<1906 [ soprano or tenor and piano ], Paris, J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
• by Paul Porthmann , "La colombe messagère" [sung text not yet checked]
• by Ferdinand Raynal , "Plaintive tourterelle - Romance", published 1881 [ high voice and piano ], Bordeaux, Emile Marchand [sung text not yet checked]
• by Pierre Renauld (1883 - 1971), "Plaintive tourterelle", 1944 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Chant d'exil", op. 39 (Trois mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 1, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, M. P. Belaïeff, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Henry Grafton Chapman (1860 - 1913) ; composed by Ernest Britt.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.
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