Fleur jetée

Fleur jetée (FR) Thrown Flower. Fauré's setting (1884, Op. 39, #2) for voice and piano of the 18th poem, »La Fleur jetée,« from the sixth section, »Vers pour être chantés« (Lines to Be Sung), of the volume La Chanson des heures (The Song of the Hours, 1872/1878) by Silvestre. The poem was republished in »Les Ailes d'or—Poésies nouvelles« (1878/1880). Fauré repeats the third and fourth lines of the second stanza of the poem at the end of the musical setting of that stanza. In the third stanza…