Je fais souvent ce rêve étrange et...
Language: French (Français)
Je fais [souvent]1 ce rêve étrange et pénétrant
D'une femme inconnue, et que j'aime, et qui m'aime,
Et qui n'est, chaque fois, ni tout à fait la même,
Ni tout à fait une autre, et m'aime, et me comprend.
Car elle me comprend, et mon coeur, transparent
Pour elle seule hélas cesse d'être un problème
Pour elle seule, et les moiteurs de mon front blême
Elle seule les sait rafraîchir, en pleurant.
Est-elle [brune, blonde]2 ou rousse? je l'ignore...
Son nom? je me souviens qu'il est doux et sonore,
Comme ceux des aimés que la Vie exila;
Son regard est pareil au regard des statues
Et, pour sa voix, lointaine, et calme et grave, elle a
L'inflexion des voix chères qui se sont tues.
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1 Bosmans: "parfois"
2 Bosmans: "blonde, brune"
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
- by Marcelle-Marguerite Aaron (1884 - 1956) and by Yvonne-Madeleine Aaron (1897 - ?), "Mon rêve familier", published 1926 [voice and piano], Sénart [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Henri Bordes d'Anzy (b. 1905), "Mon rêve familier" [voice and piano], J.-M. Champel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Henriëtte Bosmans (1895 - 1952), "Mon rêve familier", 1921, published 1954 [medium voice and piano], from 4 liederen op Franse tekst, no. 1, Amsterdam, Donemus [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by P. Challot , "Mon rêve familier", published 1901 [voice and piano], from Huit mélodies, no. 5, Alleton [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Louis Dumas (1877 - 1952), "Mon rêve familier", published 1912 [voice and piano], Sénart ; first published in Le Figaro, Supp. Litt., 25 mai [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993), "Mon rêve familier", published 1970 [voice and piano], Nouvelles Éditions Méridian [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Hector Fraggi, dit Shepherd (1882 - 1944), "Mon rêve familier", 1919, published 1920 [voice and piano], from Poèmes en musique, no. 6, Salabert [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Pierre Galan , "Mon rêve familier", 1918 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Bruno Gousset (b. 1958), "Un rêve", op. 52 (Quatre mélodies pour chant et piano) no. 1 (1990) [medium voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Mon rêve familier", op. 22 (Quatre mélodies) no. 3 (1901) [voice and piano] [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by D. Lamotte , "Mon rêve familier", published 1906 [voice and piano], Demets [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Youssef Khan Nazare-Aga, dit Kyna (1870 - 1942), "Je fais souvent", published 1908 [voice and piano], from Deux sonnets, no. 1, Heugel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Max d'Ollone (1875 - 1959), "Mon rêve familier", published 1900 [voice and piano], Heugel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Robert Otlet , "Mon rêve familier", published 1935 [voice and piano], from Melancholia, no. 5, Bosworth et Cie [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Héctor (or Ettore) Panizza (1875 - 1967), "Mon rêve familier", op. 24 no. 6 (1899) [medium-high voice and piano], from Neuf poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Milan, Ricordi [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Antonio Parera (1890 - ?), "Mon rêve familier", 1919 [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Martha Helen Schmidt (b. 1956), "Mon rêve familier", copyright © 2008 [high voice and piano], from Trois mélodies for high voice and piano, no. 3 [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by René Téboul , "Mon rêve familier", published 1954 [voice and piano], from Est-elle brune ou blonde ?, Sté Stoebel [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Jacques-F.G. Vallier , "Mon rêve familier", published 1949 [voice and piano], J. Vallier [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Philip Wilby (b. 1949), "Mon rêve familier", copyright © 1988, first performed 1983 [medium voice and piano], from Ten songs of Paul Verlaine for medium voice and piano, Cycle I : Melancholia, no. 4, Chester Music [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962) , title 1: "Traum", title 2: "Mon rêve familier aus dem Französischen des Paul Verlaine", written 1901, first published <<1915 ENG ENG ITA ; composed by Laci Boldemann, Richard Czelinski, Willi Czernik, Artur Immisch, Richard Trunk.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Peter Low) , "My familiar dream", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ignazio Giacona) , "Il mio sogno familiare", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:53
Line count: 14
Word count: 124
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My familiar dream
Language: English after the French (Français)
I often have this strange, engrossing dream
of an unknown woman, whom I love and who loves me,
and who, each time, is never quite the same
nor completely another, and who loves and understands.
For she understands me; my heart, an open book
to her alone (alas), is no longer a problem,
at least not to her; and when my pale brow is clammy
she alone knows how to refresh it, with her tears.
Is she brunette, blonde or redheaded? I don't know.
Her name? I recall that it's sweet and sonorous
like the names of lovers whom Life sent into exile.
Her gaze is like the gaze of a statue,
and her voice - her distant, calm deep voice -
has the inflection of beloved voices that have fallen silent.
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Based on- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Mon rêve familier", appears in Poèmes saturniens, in Mélancholia, no. 6, first published 1866 GER ITA
- This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Marcelle-Marguerite Aaron, Yvonne-Madeleine Aaron, Henri Bordes d'Anzy, Henriëtte Bosmans, P. Challot, Louis Dumas, Léo Ferré, Hector Fraggi, dit Shepherd, Pierre Galan, Bruno Gousset, Charles Koechlin, D. Lamotte, Youssef Khan Nazare-Aga, dit Kyna, Max d'Ollone, Robert Otlet, Héctor Panizza, Antonio Parera, Martha Helen Schmidt, René Téboul, Jacques-F.G. Vallier, Philip Wilby. Go to the text.
Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:01:53
Line count: 14
Word count: 133
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