Je t'adore

Je t'adore à l'égal de la voute nocturne,
O vase de tristesse, ô grande taciturne,
Et t'aime d'autant plus, belle, que tu me fuis,
Et que tu me parais, ornement de mes nuits,
Plus ironiquement accumuler les lieues
Qui séparent mes bras des immensités bleues.

Je m'avance à l'attaque, et je grimpe aux assauts,
Comme après un cadavre un choeur de vermisseaux,
Et je chéris, ô bête implacable et cruelle!
Jusqu'à cette froideur par où tu m'es plus belle!

by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) , from Les Fleurs du Mal, in Spleen et Idéal, no. 24

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

by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864-1956) , "Je t'adore", op. 48 no. 3, from Les Fleurs du Mal, no. 3, note: also set in Russian

by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864-1956) , "Ja ljublju tebja", op. 48 no. 3, from Cvety zla, no. 3, note: also set in French

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Ja ljublju tebja

Ja ljublju tebja strastno, kak nochi mercan'je,
kak pesn' nezhnoj grusti, kak mraka molchan'je,
a ty zhizn' moja, radost', ty kholodna,
ty ne ljubish', bezhish', prezirajesh' menja.
Ty carica obmanchivykh groznykh nochej,
ne dostupno zhestokaja, vsekh krasavic ty pylkikh milej!

Ja khochu ovladet' i upit'sja toboj,
kak krasavicy trupom vladejet' chervjak zemljanoj.
I ja khochu, kak zver' krovozhadnyj, uzhasnyj,
vypit' s ust ledjanykh jad lobzanij bezstrastnykh!

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a text in French by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) , from Les Fleurs du Mal, in Spleen et Idéal, no. 24

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

by Aleksandr Tikhonovich Gretchaninov (1864-1956) , "Ja ljublju tebja", op. 48 no. 3, from Cvety zla, no. 3, note: also set in French

Date added to the website: 0000-00-00.