Wahre Stunde | Eine dunkle

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by M. Jacquet, Madame

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Heure vécue

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Une nuit brune
D'un soir d'hiver...
Un ciel sans lune...
C'est déjà loin !... et c'est hier.
Ardentes fièvres !
Profond soupir !
Entre leurs lèvres...
Un très long baiser vint mourir.
Et ce fut tout.
Une heure... un charme,
Puis, une larme !
Heure inoubliable, surtout !
Première page
D'un livre aimé,
Vite fermé...
De peur d'en lire davantage.
C'est déjà loin ! et c'est hier.

Text Authorship:

by M. Jacquet, Madame [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

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

by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Heure vécue", 1912, published 1912. [voice and piano] [ sung text verified 2 times]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Peter Low) , title 1: "An hour that they lived", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Wahre Stunde", copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Low [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-01-31
Line count: 17
Word count: 61

Wahre Stunde

Language: German (Deutsch) after the French (Français)

Eine dunkle 
Winternacht …
ein mondloser Himmel …
es liegt schon weit zurück … und doch erst gestern.
Leidenschaftliche Erregung!
Tiefes Seufzen!
Zwischen ihren Lippen
erstirbt ein sehr langer Kuss
Und das war alles.
Eine Stunde …  ein Entzücken,
dann, eine Träne!
Vor allem eine unvergessliche Stunde!
Die erste Seite
eines geliebten Buchs,
rasch zugeschlagen …
aus Angst, weiterzulesen.
Es liegt schon weit zurück … und doch erst gestern.

Text Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to German (Deutsch) copyright © 2017 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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This text was added to the website: 2017-06-07
Line count: 17
Word count: 69