Attente (Lili Boulanger)

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• (Posted 2026-01-17)  CPDL #88110:     

Editor: Andrew Hathaway (submitted 2026-01-17).   Score information: A4, 3 pages, 96 kB   Copyright: CPDL

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General Information

Title: Attente
Composer: Lili Boulanger
Lyricist: Maurice Maeterlinck^{create page}
Number of voices: 1v   Voicing: Unison
Genre: Secular, Art song

Language: French
Instruments: Piano

First published: 1918
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• Poem text at Lieder.net.

Original text and translations

French text Mon âme a joint ses mains étranges À l'horizon de mes regards; Exaucez mes rêves épars Entre les lèvres de vos anges! En attendant sous mes yeux las, Et sa bouche ouverte aux prières Éteintes entre mes paupières Et dont les lys n'éclosent pas; Elle apaise au fond de mes songes, Ses seins effeuillés sous mes cils, Et ses yeux clignent aux périls Éveillés au fil des mensonges.

English text My soul has joined her foreign hands At the horizon of my glances; Grant my scattered dreams Between the lips of your angels! Waiting under my weary eyes, And her mouth open in prayers Extinguished between my eyelids And of which the lilies do not bloom; She satisfies at the bottom of my dreams, Her breasts denuded under my eyelashes And her eyes gazing half-open at the risks Awakened by the thread of illusions.