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by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869)

Parle‑moi, que ta voix me touche !
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Parle-moi, que ta voix me touche !
Chaque parole sur ta bouche
Est un écho mélodieux.
Quand ta voix meurt dans mon oreille,
Mon âme résonne et s'éveille,
Comme un temple à la voix des [dieux]1.

Un souffle, un mot puis un silence,
C'est assez : mon âme devance
Le sens interrompu des mots,
Et comprend ta voix fugitive,
Comme le gazon sur la rive
Comprend le murmure des flots.

Un son qui sur ta bouche expire,
Une plainte un demi-sourire,
Mon cœur entend tout sans effort :
Le souffle même du zéphire
Devient un ravissant accord.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   M. de Rothschild 

M. de Rothschild sets stanzas 1, 3

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1 Rothschild: "cieux"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine (1790 - 1869), no title, appears in Nouvelles méditations poétiques, in 3. Chant d'Amour, no. 4 [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 Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Chant d'amour", published 2009 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 34, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Delphin Marie Balleyguier (d. 1899), "Parle-moi" [ voice and piano ], from Les chansons des troubadours, no. 9, Paris, Éd. Ledentu [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Amédée Dutacq (1848 - 1929), "Parle-moi !", published 1881-1882 [ medium voice and piano ], in Journal du Musique [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897), "Chant d'amour ", published [1863] [ medium voice and piano ], from Rimes et mélodies, 12 morceaux de chant, 2ème série, no. 5, Paris, Éditions E. Heu [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Parle-moi que ta voix me touche", 1917, from Trois chansons, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Mathilde, Baroness Willy de Rothschild (1832 - 1924), "Parle-moi, que ta voix me touche!", stanzas 1,3 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright © 2012


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 17
Word count: 96

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