Le vrai amour

Le vrai amour naît du premier regard
Et ne veut point se façonner par art:
Et c'est pourquoi ces moitiés séparées,
Étant jadis dans le monde égarées,
Se retrouvant si bien se rejoignaient,
Que jamais plus elles ne s'éloignaient.

by Joachim du Bellay (1525-c1560)

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

by Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) , "Le vrai amour", 1964, published 1966, from L'amour Chante, no. 1.

ENG English (David Jonathan Justman)

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