Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle | Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG ENG

Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle 
Et souple comme [le]¹ roseau;
Ton sein palpitait comme l'aile
D'un jeune oiseau!

Longtemps muets, nous contemplâmes
Le ciel où s'éteignait le jour.
Que se passait-il dans nos âmes?
Amour! Amour!

Comme un ange qui se dévoile,
Tu me regardais, dans ma nuit,
Avec ton beau regard d'étoile,
Qui m'éblouit.

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E. Lalo sets stanzas 3, 1-2

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Text Authorship:

by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle", written 1834, appears in Les Contemplations, in 2. Livre deuxiême -- L'âme en fleur, no. 10 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Mon bras pressait ta taille", published <<1912 [ voice and piano ], from Seize mélodies, no. 37, Paris, Maurice Sénart, B. Roudanez et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Gary Bachlund (b. 1947), "Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle", 2009 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Maxime Belliard (1888 - 1986), "Au crépuscule", published [1925] [ high voice and piano ], Édition Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle", 1921, published 1925 [sung text not yet checked]
by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Amour ! Amour !" [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
by Fernand-Gustave Halphen (1872 - 1917), "Autrefois", 1894 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Souvenir" [ tenor or soprano and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, 1er volume, no. 20, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Huybrechts (1899 - 1938), "Eglogue", 1918 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Idylle" [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Henri Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "Souvenir", 1870, published 1872, stanzas 3,1-2 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles-Gaston Levadé (1869 - 1948), "Contemplation" [ voice and piano ], Éd. A. Quinzard [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Mihalovici (1898 - 1985), "Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle", op. 25 no. 3 (1927), published 1932 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Romances de V. Hugo, no. 3, Éd. R. Deiss [sung text not yet checked]
by Hyppolyte Mirande (1862 - 1938), "Mélodie", published [1886] [ high voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies. Poésies de V. Hugo, no. 2, Paris, Éd. J. Naus [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Comme un ange" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Carlo Rossaro (1827 - 1878), "Mon bras pressait ta taille frêle " [ voice and piano ], from 15 Romanze e Contemplazioni in chiave di Sol con accompagnamento di Pianoforte, no. 2, confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "Amour ! amour !", 1900 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Contemplation", op. 43 no. 3 [ high voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 21, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 57