by
Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909)
Le matin riait, ingénu
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Le matin riait, ingénu ;
Tu m'as dit : Viens ! je suis venu.
Un peu plus tard, tu m'as dit : Chante !
J'ai chanté ta grâce méchante.
Mais vint la nuit, la nuit d'été :
Tu m'as dit : Pars ! je suis resté.
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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 Bellecour (1885 - 1973), "Sérénade", published 1913 [ medium voice and piano ], in n La Musique au foyer, no. 3, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Hasselmans (1878 - 1957), "Sérénade", published [1897] [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Éd. A. Noël [sung text not yet checked]
- by Xavier Henri Napoleon Leroux (1863 - 1919), "Le matin riait", 1903, published 1903 [ high voice and piano ], from Les sérénades (Dix mélodies), no. 6, Éd. Au Ménestrel- Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2014-06-09
Line count: 6
Word count: 46
The morning laughed, guileless
Language: English  after the French (Français)
The morning laughed, guileless;
You said to me: Come! I came.
A little later you said to me: Sing!
I sang for your unkind favor.
But the night came, the summer night:
You said to me: Depart! I stayed.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Catulle Mendès (1841 - 1909), no title, written <<1876, appears in Pantéleïa, in 2. Sérénades, no. 6, Éd. Ollendorff, first published 1885
This text was added to the website: 2024-02-14
Line count: 6
Word count: 39