Après l'orage

J'aime la mer comme mon âme, 
J'aime tes yeux comme la mer : 
Parfois des caprices de femme 
Semblent troubler le gouffre amer ; 

Et de même tes chers yeux vagues,
D'un azur si tendre souvent,
Ont cette inconstance des vagues 
Au plus léger souffle du vent ;

Et mes caresses, et mes joies,
Tous mes songes délicieux,
Brusquement alors tu les noies 
Dans un orage de tes yeux. 

Mais si fantasque est ta nature 
Que l'orage aussi dure peu,
Et plus clair après l'aventure 
Luit et me rit ton regard bleu.

Confirmed with Jean Lahor, L'Illusion, 3rd edition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, page 120.

Authorship

• by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Après l'orage", written 1868, appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1875 [ author's text checked 1 time]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

• by Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "Après l'orage", published 1912 [medium voice and piano], from Deux poésies de Jean Lahor, no. 2, Éd. Heugel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]

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