Pour moi sa main cueillait des roses

Pour moi sa main cueillait des roses
A ce buisson,
Comme elle encore à peine écloses,
Chère moisson.

La gerbe, hélas! en est fanée
Comme elle aussi;
La moissonneuse moissonée
Repose ici.

Mais sur la tombe qui vous couvre,
Ô mes amours!
Une églantine, qui s'entr'ouvre,
Sourit toujours.

Et, sous le buisson qui surplombe,
Quand je reviens,
Une voix me dit sous la tombe:
"Je me souviens."

by Lucien Paté (1845-1939)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by César Franck (1822-1890) , "Chant", FWV. 83 (1873), published 1893. [female voice and piano]
by Ernest Lavigne (1851-1909) , "Les roses"

ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne)

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For me alone she culled the roses

For me alone she culled the roses
From off this bush;
Like them, she had not bloomed quite fully,
O harvest sweet!

The sheaf alas! is shrunk and withered,
Just like herself.
The harvester in-gathered
Is sleeping here.

But on the tomb in which you're lying,
My dearest one,
An eglantine there grows half-opened,
Smiling always!

And 'neath the rosebush that bends over,
Whene'er I go
I can hear from the grave a whisper:
"I remember."

Singable translation by Samuel Byrne , "For me alone she culled the roses"

a text in French by Lucien Paté (1845-1939)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

[ None yet in the database ]

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.