Flower cloak | All the flowers in my garden are pink

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by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Manteau de fleurs

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Toutes les fleurs de mon jardin sont roses,
Le rose sied à sa beauté.
Les primevères sont les premières écloses,
Puis viennent les tulipes et les jacinthes roses,
Les jolis oeillets, les si belles roses,
Toute la variété des fleurs si roses
Du printemps et de l'été!
Le rose sied à sa beauté!
Toutes mes pivoines sont roses,
Roses aussi sont mes glaïeuls,
Roses mes géraniums; seuls,
Dans tout ce rose un peu troublant,
Les lys ont le droit d'être blancs.
Et quand elle passe au milieu des fleurs
Emperlées de rosée en pleurs,
Dans le parfum grisant des roses,
Et sous la caresse des choses
Tout grâce, amour, pureté!
Les fleurs lui font un manteau rose
Dont elle pare sa beauté.

Text Authorship:

by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet, "Manteau de fleurs", written 1903, appears in Les Frissons, no. 19 [author's text not yet checked 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 Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Manteau de fleurs", M. 39 (1903), published 1905 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Frissons, no. 19, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Flower cloak", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 20
Word count: 122

Flower cloak

Language: English after the French (Français)

All the flowers in my garden are pink,
Pink suits her beauty.
The primroses are the first to bloom,
Then come the tulips and the pink hyacinths,
The pretty pinks, such beautiful roses,
Every kind of such pink flowers
Of spring and of summer!
Pink suits her beauty!
All my peonies are pink,
Pink also are my gladioli,
Pink my geraniums; however,
One thing disturbs all this pinkness,
The lilies have the right to be white.
And when she passes through the flowers
Pearly with teardrops of dew,
Among the heady perfume of roses,
And caressed by these things
All is grace, love, purity!
The flowers make her a pink cloak
With which she bedecks her beauty.

Translator's notes
Note on the title: a manteau is a coat, cloak, mantle, garment worn by Orthodox bishops
Line 2 ("suits"): seoir à means to be suitable for, to be proper for, to be becoming to someone
Line 5 ("pinks"): œillet means a pink, a carnation

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a text in French (Français) by Paul Barthélemy Jeulin (1863 - 1936), as Paul Gravollet, "Manteau de fleurs", written 1903, appears in Les Frissons, no. 19
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This text was added to the website: 2013-06-10
Line count: 20
Word count: 117