Comment, disaient‑ils

Comment, disaient-ils,
Avec nos nacelles,
Fuir les alguazils?
Ramez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,
Oublier querelles,
Misère et périls?
Dormez, disaient-elles.

Comment, disaient-ils,
Enchanter les belles
Sans philtres subtils?
Aimez, disaient-elles.

by Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885) , "Autre Guitare", from Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 23, published 1838

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

by Jean Absil (1893-1974) , "Autre guitare"
by Georges Bizet (1838-1875) , "Guitare"
by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849-1895) , no title, from Chansons de Mois.
by Louis Lacombe (1818-1884) , "Guitare"
by Edouard Lalo (1823-1892) , "Guitare"
by Alexandre Charles Lecocq (1832-1918) , "Guitare"
by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Comment, disaient-ils", S. 276 (1843), also set in German
by Victor Massé (1822-1884) , "Ramez, dormez, aimez!"
by Jules Massenet (1842-1912) , "Guitare", 1886.
by Paul Puget (1848-1917) [pseudonym] , "Comment, disaient-ils"
by Henri Reber (1807-1880) , "Guitare"
by Anton Grigoryevich Rubinstein (1829-1894) , "Romance" [voice and piano], note: first published as opus 3 (Moskow, Gresser), but the opus number was reused later
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) , "Guitare", 1851, published 1870.
by Marcel Trémois , "Guitare", published 1926. [voice and piano]

by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov (1873-1943) , "Oni otvechali", op. 21 no. 4 (1902).

by Franz (Ferencz) Liszt (1811-1886) , "Was tun?", S. 276 (1843), also set in French

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