W281: Plaintes d’Amour

Publisher: Enoch & Costallat
Date: 1891
Instrumentation: voice: high or medium

Dedicated to Suzanne Lacombe. No. 1 in E major and No. 2 in C major. Text by Eugène Adenis.
The text is about love is about the poet’s journey from sorrow to acceptance. The lament over lost love gradually yields to a gentler remembrance, where grief is softened by the joy and vitality love once inspired.