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diff --git a/12365.txt b/12365.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..48b2cfe --- /dev/null +++ b/12365.txt @@ -0,0 +1,985 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Femmes Revees, by Albert Ferland + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Femmes Revees + +Author: Albert Ferland + +Release Date: May 16, 2004 [EBook #12365] + +Language: French + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FEMMES REVEES *** + + + + +Produced by Renald Levesque and "La bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec" + + + + + + +Pour lire a la femme aimee. + +[Illustration] + +ALBERT FERLAND + +FEMMES REVEES + +_ Preface de M. Louis Frechette_ +Laureat de l'Academie francaise. + +MDCCCXCIX + + + +Preface + +Femmes revees, tres joli titre, mais encore plus joli sujet. Les reves, +les femmes! La poesie, la jeunesse! Toutes les sonorites du coeur, tous +les rayonnements de l'intelligence! + +En dehors de cela, c'est-a-dire du Beau--sous ses formes les plus +subtiles comme les plus tangibles--et de l'Art qui en est la formule et +la plus sublime manifestation symbolique, qu'est-ce que la vie, sinon la +vegetation de la plante ou l'inconsciente croissance du mollusque? Oui, +joli titre, joli sujet, et je puis ajouter: joli petit volume, qui +possede, entre autres qualites, celle d'etre modeste comme son auteur, +et sans pretention comme les precedents ecrits tombes de la meme plume. + +Je ne sais si M. Ferland est un sentimental; il doit l'etre un peu: tous +les poetes et les fervents de l'Art le sont plus ou moins. Mais il a le +bon esprit, ce dont je ne saurais trop le feliciter, de ne pas exhiber +devant le public les recoins intimes de son etre, de son _moi_--pour me +servir d'une expression en vogue--et de ne pas arreter les passant par +les basques de leur habit pour leur seriner sur tous les tons la gamme +de ses joies et de ses tristesses. + +Il n'appartient pas a cette categorie de poetes saules-pleureurs qui +semblent ne pouvoir respirer ni soupirer sans servir a tout propos et a +tous venants les fragments avaries de leur coeur ranges sur un plateau +comme des tranches de melons; de ces poetes qui ne peuvent savourer un +moment d'ivresse ni eprouver un acces de chagrin, sans etre piques du +desir d'epancher tout cela dans le sein de la publicite; un de +ces poetes qui ne saurait aimer ni etre aimes sans mettre leurs +contemporains dans leurs confidences, afin que nul n'en ignore. + +Chacun son gout, mais moi j'ai peu de sympathies pour ces poetes a +consciences deboutonnees, a commencer par Alfred de Musset, qui, lui au +moins, semait du genie dans ses jeremiades d'amoureux deconfit. + +Vous avez aime, la belle affaire! On vous a aime, la belle histoire! +Vous avez pleure... Est-ce quelque chose de si rare? et vous croyez-vous +une exception pour cela? + +A mon avis, on doit aimer dans l'ombre et pleurer en silence,--surtout +les poetes qui, dit-on, ont le privilege d'aimer te partant de pleurer +plus souvent qu'a leur tour. + +M. Ferland a aime, je n'en doute pas; il a du pleurer quelquefois, on +n'a pas l'ame d'un artiste sans cela. Mais sa plume est trop discrete +pour nous reveler le mystere de ses intimites. Il connait trop le +public, du reste--surtout celui de notre epoque et de notre pays--pour +s'imaginer un instant qu'on puisse ressusciter... +. . . . Page illisible . +. . . . Page illisible . +...n'est plus que le reve du souvenir, helas! + +Lorsque Zeuxis eut a peindre sa JUNON LACINIENNE, les Agrigentins lui +permirent de choisir pour modeles les plus belles femmes de leur ville. + +Elles defilerent toutes devant lui, et son choix tomba sur cinq d'entre +elles, qu'il fit poser ensemble ou separement, prenant a chacune la +principale caracteristique de sa beaute propre, et reunissant le tout +dans une seule et meme conception ideale, afin d'arriver le plus pres +possible de la perfection des formes et des couleurs. + +Il en resultat un chef-d'oeuvre qui, bien que detruit depuis des +milliers d'ans, vit encore dans la tradition des siecles et des +generations. + +M. Ferland a use du meme procede: et c'est ce qui fait que tous peuvent +reconnaitre dans son oeuvre quelques-uns des traits qu'ils on adores, +quelques-unes des facettes particulieres aux diamants de leur ecrin; +que chacun peut retrouver, comme egarees dans ces feuillets, quelques +reminiscences des parfums qu'ont laisses derriere eux les chers et doux +fantomes qui ont illumine sa vie. + +Maintenant, si je me permettais un reproche, je dirais au jeune poete: + +"Vous avez celebre la femme dans sa beaute plastique, dans sa beaute +paienne--un peu trop paienne peut-etre. J'aimerais, dans vos strophes, +entendre chanter un peu plus clair, un peu plus sonore, cet harmonieux +clavier qui est l'_ame_ de la femme." + +Cela viendra sans doute. + +LOUIS FRECHETTE. + + + +A la femme + + Qu'en tous lieux ou l'on s'aime, + Feuillets, un vent vous seme! + Sans treve et sans retour, + Allez! et que dans l'ombre + Des retraites sans nombre + Ou l'on reve d'amour, + Melancolique, un jour, + La Femme vous recueille, + Comme une fleur des bois + Qu'un vent d'octobre effeuille + Et fait rouler parfois + Humide et parfumee + Sous les pas de l'aimee. + A. F. + + +Femmes Revees + + + +Adoration + + +Exaltation + + Quant on exalterait les femme d'Occident + Ou des mysterieux royaumes de l'Asie, + Le galbe de l'almee ou le regard ardent + Des filles de Florence et de l'Andalousie, + + Quand on exalterait les brunes cancenis + Dont la danse aux palais des radjahs se deroule + Et l'hetaire hellene immolant a Cypris + Sa parfaite beaute de femme hierodoule, + + Quand on exalterait les graces de Lia + L'heroique Judith, Susanne et Madeleine, + Les charmes de Lucrece et de Marozzia, + La reine de Lemnos ou la princesse Helene + + Je douterais encor qu'un poete ait chante, + Dans ses heures d'extase et d'amoureuse ivresse, + Une femme du siecle ou de l'antiquite + Plus que toi gracieuse, aimante et charmeresse. + + +Litanies de la Femme + + O toi que l'Eternel forma des chairs de l'homme + Et qui fais tressaillir nos coeurs des qu'on te nomme + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + Souveraine des coeurs et gloire de l'hymen, + Toi dont nous sommes nes, tige du genre humain, + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + Chef-d'oeuvre du Tres-Haut, toi par qui sa feconde + Et sage omnipotence a termine le monde, + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + O toi qui sans unir la force a la fierte, + Sais regner par l'attrait, la grace et la bonte + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + Toi par qui s'accomplit, adorable mystere, + La generation des peuples de la terre, + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + Toi dont l'amour eleve et fait l'homme plus fort + Pour combattre le mal et marcher vers la mort + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + O toi seule qui sais d'un baiser de tes levres + Pacifier nos coeurs et temperer nos fievres, + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + Toi qui portes dans l'ame et dans ta chair en feu + Le vestige eclatant du passage de Dieu, + + Femme, daigne repondre au noble amour de l'homme! + + +PRIERE + + O femme, gloire a toi! Qu'en son idolatrie, + Chacun des fils d'Adam se prosterne et te prie + D'agreer le tribut de sa virilite! + Fais que tout homme aspire a devenir ton pretre + Et sans cesse altere des charmes de ton etre + Soit a jamais heureux d'exalter ta beaute! + + +Holocauste + + Puisque vous ne sauriez vous lasser, o mes yeux, + D'admirer la splendeur de sa beaute charnelle, + Subissez a jamais son charme imperieux + Et soyez obsedes des feux de sa prunelle. + + Puisqu'il m'est douloureux d'oser, en mon amour, + Vous sevrer du nectar de sa bouche incarnate, + Mes levres, brulez donc de boire chaque jour + Son baiser qui parfume ainsi qu'un aromate. + + Puisque en moi s'est accru le desir obsesseur + D'etreindre follement ses mains d'imperatrice, + O mes mains, recherchez leur contact enchanteur + Jusqu'a ce que le temps pour toujours les fletrisse. + + + +CHANTS D'AMOUR + + _Tires du "Cantique des Cantiques"_ + + Va, mange et bois; parce qu'a Dieu plaisent + tes oeuvres. Qu'en tout temps tes vetements + soient blancs et que l'huile parfumee + ne manque pas sur ta tete. Jouis de la vie + avec la femme que tu aimes, pendant tous + les jours de ta vie de vanite que Dieu t'a + donne sous le soleil, car il n'y a ni oeuvre, + ni pensee, ni sagesse, dans le sejour des + morts, ou tu vas. + ECCLESIASTE IX, 7, 10. + + + +Chants d'Amour + + I + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Celui que mon coeur aime est un bouquet de myrrhe; + Son baiser dont l'ardeur est celle du midi + Est non moins odorant que le nard de Palmyre + Et meilleur que le sang des vignes d'Eugaddi. + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Que ne m'est-il donne d'etre a son ombre assise! + Son aspect est pareil a celui de l'Hermon; + Des filles de Sion plus d'une en est eprise; + C'est une huile epandue et rare que son nom. + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Admise en ses celliers, j'inclinerai l'amphore, + Et, vous distribuant le nectar des festins, + Je me plairai, joyeuse, a vous redire encore + Que son baiser vainqueur est meilleur que les vins. + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Je suis brune et pourtant mon roi m'a comparee + A ses coursiers trainant le char de Pharaon; + Je suis belle a ses yeux, quoique decoloree, + Plus que les pavillons du sage Salomon. + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Ne considerez plus que je me sais halee, + Dans les flots lumineux qui baignaient les sentiers, + Lorsqu'en mai je m'en suis septante fois allee + Garder ma vigne en fleur au jardin des noyers. + +LES FILLES DE JERUSALEM + + Dis-nous, o jeune femme + Dis-nous ton bien-aime + L'aime qui, d'un pur cinname, + Ton lit doit etre parfume. + +L'EPOUSE + + Celui que mon coeur aime est un bouquet de myrrhe; + Son baiser dont l'ardeur est celle du midi + Est non moins odorant que le nard de Palmyre + Et meilleur que le sang des vignes d'Engaddi. + + +II + +Beaute des Epoux + +L'EPOUX + + Vois donc, ma soeur, epouse, o fontaine scellee, + Comme ton corps est svelte et d'aspect gracieux! + +L'EPOUSE + + Vois donc, o mon epoux, o lis de la vallee, + Comme en toi toute chose est parfaite a mes yeux! + +L'EPOUX + + Tes cheveux sont pareils a des troupeaux de chevres + Poursuivant sur les monts leurs chemins coutumiers. + +L'EPOUSE + + La myrrhe, o bien-aime, distille de tes levres, + Tes cheveux sont pareils aux pousses des palmiers. + +L'EPOUX + + Tes mains qui des couleurs de l'aurore sont teintes + Semblent deux papillons autour de toi volant. + +L'EPOUSE + + Tes mains, faites au tour, sont pleines d'hyacinthes, + Et ta tete superbe est un or excellent. + +L'EPOUX + + Tes yeux dont le regard a blesse ma prunelle + Sont purs comme les flots des vasques d'Hesebon. + +L'EPOUSE + + Tes yeux a qui mon corps chastement se revele + Sont clairs comme les eaux des puits de Salomon. + + + + + FEMMES REVEES + + A l'ideal ouvre ton ame, + Mets dans ton coeur beaucoup de ciel, + Aime une nue, aime une femme, + Mais aime!--C'est l'essentiel! + THEOPHILE GAUTHIER + + + +L'Inconnue + + Cette femme qui passe au lever de la lune, + Voilee et dont le voile est le jouet du vent, + Cette femme qui passe et se deult sur la dune, + Me disais-je revant, + + Est-elle une beaute brune, blonde ou chataine, + Cachant, le coeur emu, sous un voile jaloux, + Des epaules de neige ou des tresses d'ebene, + Ou des yeux andalous? + + Vient-elle de l'Attique ou de l'Occitanie, + Du Nil ou de l'Indus, de Rome ou de Paris, + Ou se dit-elle enfant de la Lusitanie + Ou d'un autre pays? + + Se nomme-t-elle Ea, Berenice ou Pauline, + Armide ou Madeleine, Eliane ou Ninon, + Isaure, Iole, Ida Nohemie, Jacqueline, + Ou d'un plus joli nom, + + Cette femme qui passe au lever de la lune, + Voilee et dont le voile est le jouet du vent + Cette femme qui passe et se deult sur la dune? + Me disais-je en revant... + + +Reve + + Les cheveux flottants et la gorge nue, + Au sein d'un val ou j'etais seul, + Une femme est venue + + Calme, en traversant l'ombre d'un tilleul, + Elle s'embellit d'un sourire + Quand elle me vit seul, + + Et, parfumant l'air d'une odeur de myrrhe, + Elle vint s'asseoir pres de moi + Ne cessant de sourire. + + Puis elle m'offrit, vibrante d'emoi, + Le baiser de sa levre rose, + En s'inclinant sur moi, + + Les cheveux flottants, la bouche mi-close. + + +La Chasseresse + + J'aime a fantasier la sereine beaute + De cette virginale et blonde chasseresse + Que, telle qu'aux accents d'un sylvain redoute + Fuyaient dans les roseaux les nymphes en detresse, + En me voyant, furtif, pres d'elle, en tapinois, + Oeillader sa demarche altiere, s'est enfuie + Adorablement belle, a travers les grands bois, + Un jour que le soleil souriait dans la pluie. + + +Chant des Pleureuses + + Ayons comme les jours de la triste saison + Nos heures de soleil et de melancolie; + Autant qu'il nous est doux de rire a la folie, + Qu'il nous plaise parfois de pleurer sans raison. + + Pleurons, pleurons pleureuses que nous sommes + Pleurons, pleurons, loin du regard des hommes, + Pleurons quand la tristesse entenebre nos yeux, + Pleurons lorsque le coeur s'enamoure et s'ennuie; + Que nos chagrins, pareils aux nuages des cieux, + Se dissipent en pleurs comme ils tombent en pluie! + + Qu'il est plaisant de voir, ainsi que brusquement + S'ensoleille en avril l'azur apres l'ondee, + Une pleureuse encor de larmes inondee + S'illuminer soudain d'un sourire charmant! + + Pleurons, pleurons pleureuses que nous sommes + Pleurons, pleurons, loin du regard des hommes, + Pleurons quand la tristesse entenebre nos yeux, + Pleurons lorsque le coeur s'enamoure et s'ennuie; + Que nos chagrins, pareils aux nuages des cieux, + Se dissipent en pleurs comme ils tombent en pluie! + + Dolentes et les yeux empreints de nonchaloir + Sachons parfois, ainsi qu'a l'ombre des platanes + Le coeur alangouri soupirent les sultanes, + Meme au doux mois des fleurs gemir et nous doloir. + + Pleurons, pleurons pleureuses que nous sommes + Pleurons, pleurons, loin du regard des hommes, + Pleurons quand la tristesse entenebre nos yeux, + Pleurons lorsque le coeur s'enamoure et s'ennuie; + Que nos chagrins, pareils aux nuages des cieux, + Se dissipent en pleurs comme ils tombent en pluie! + + +Le Bois + + Vous souvient-il qu'un jour aupres des flots tranquilles, + Sous le dais de ces bois moussus et parfumes + Ainsi que les pastours des anciennes idylles, + Nous nous sommes aimes? + + Vous souvient-il encor des bois ou nous allames + Alors qu'aux vents de mai neigeaient les eglantiers, + Alors que sans retour s'allumait en nos ames + L'amour que vous chantiez? + + Le divin souvenir de ces heures lointaines, + Doux, triste, vous fait-il quelquefois regretter + De n'avoir plus au coeur les esperances vaines + Qui vous faisaient chanter? + + Helas! nos corps ainsi que ces bois seculaires + Par les soleils d'avril ne sont plus rajeunis, + Car, o femme, a jamais sont mortes nos chimeres + Et nos fronts sont ternis! + + +Les Preceptes de l'Amour + + Adolescent ta chair dompteras, + Afin de vivre longuement. + + Vierge ton corps tu garderas + Jusqu'a l'hymen jalousement + + Honnete point ne marcheras + Devers la tombe isolement. + + Nulle femme ne connaitras + Hors de l'hymen charnellement. + + Selon ton coeur tu choisiras + Une femme discretement. + + Chretien tu te multiplieras + Par le sang et l'enseignement. + + + + + +Table des Matieres + +PREFACE + +DEDICACE + +ADORATION + Exaltation + Litanies de la Femme + Holocauste + +CHANTS D'AMOUR + I Dis-nous, o jeune femme + II Beaute des Epoux + +FEMMES REVEES + L'inconnue + Reve + La Chasseresse + Chant des Pleureuses + Les Bois + Preceptes de l'Amour + +TABLE. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Femmes Revees, by Albert Ferland + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FEMMES REVEES *** + +***** This file should be named 12365.txt or 12365.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/2/3/6/12365/ + +Produced by Renald Levesque and "La bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec" + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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