Bid adieu, adieu, adieu

Bid adieu, adieu, adieu, 
  Bid adieu to girlish days, 
Happy love is come to woo 
  Thee and woo thy girlish ways - 
The zone that doth become thee fair, 
The snood upon thy yellow hair. 

When thou hast heard his name upon 
  The bugles of the cherubim 
Begin thou softly to unzone 
  Thy girlish bosom unto him 
And softly to undo the snood 
That is the sign of maidenhood.

by James Joyce (1882-1941) , no title, from Chamber Music, no. 11, published 1907

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

by David Arditti (1964-) , no title, op. 20 no. 8 (1998) [tenor and string quartet], from Chamber Music, no. 8.
by Israel Citkowitz (1909-1974) , "Bid adieu", published 1930 [voice and piano], from Five Songs from "Chamber Music", no. 4.
by David Leo Diamond (1915-2005) , "Bid adieu, adieu, adieu", published 1938 [madrigal for four-part chorus a cappella], from Three Madrigals, no. ?
by Edmund Pendleton , "Bid adieu", published 1949. [voice and piano]

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Dis adieu, adieu, adieu

Dis adieu, adieu, adieu,
Dis adieu aux jours de jeune fille,
L'amour heureux vient pour faire la cour
À toi et à tes manières de jeune fille --
La ceinture qui te fait si belle,
La résille sur tes cheveux blonds.

Quand tu auras entendu son nom
Aux clairons du chérubin,
Commence doucement à défaire
Ton sein de jeune fille pour lui
Et doucement à défaire la résille
Qui est le signe de ta virginité.

Translation from English to French copyright © 2009 by Guy Laffaille (guylaffaille (AT) yahoo (DOT) fr), (re)printed on this website with kind permission. Please contact the copyright-holder when requesting permission to reprint.

a text in English by James Joyce (1882-1941) , no title, from Chamber Music, no. 11, published 1907

Date added to the website: 2009-11-06.