Sur une jeune fille

Ne me fuis pas, jeune fille, 
par dédain pour mes cheveux blancs.
Ne méprise point mon amour,
parce que tu as les couleurs de la rose.
Vois combien les lys blancs 
sont beaux mêlés aux roses !

by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle (1818-1894) , "Sur une jeune fille", from Idylles de Théocrite et Odes anacréontiques, published 1861

a text in Greek by Anacreon (c582BCE-c485BCE) , no title, from Odes, no. 34 [text unavailable]

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

by Albert Roussel (1869-1937) , "Sur une jeune fille", op. 32 no. 2 (1926), first performed 1927. [medium voice and piano]

Date added to the website: 2009-02-09.

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