by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)
Le Lilas
Language: French (Français)
Ô floraison divine du Lilas, Je te bénis, pour si peu que tu dures ! Nos pauvres coeurs de souffrir étaient las. Enfin l'oubli guérit nos peines dures Enivrez-nous, fleurs, horizons, verdures ! Le clair réveil du matin gracieux ; Charme l'azur irradié des cieux ; Mai fleurissant cache les blanches tombes, Tout éclairé de feux délicieux, Et l'air frémit, blanc des vols de colombes.
Text Authorship:
- by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Le Lilas", appears in Les Cariatides, in Les Caprices - en dizains à la manière de Clément Marot, no. 17, first published 1842 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Le Lilas", L. 36/(22) (1882) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , "El lilà", copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Lilac", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "I lillà", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Geoffrey Wieting
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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