D'avoir tenu vos chères mains
Language: French (Français)
D'avoir tenu vos chères mains
Longuement dans les miennes,
Je réspire encor ce matin
Un pénétrant parfum
De verveine
D'avoir tenu longtemps mes yeux
Sous le charme des vôtres,
Je garde en moi de lumineux
Reflets, d'un vert gris bleu,
Presque mauve.
Tous les parfums et tous les cieux
S'échappent de vos mains
Ou resplenissent dans vos yeux:
Approche, je les veux
Moins lointains;
Oh! viens plus près,
pour que demain,
En un rêve amoureux,
Je trouve encor sur mon chemin
Avec tous les parfums
Tous les cieux!
Translation(s): ENG
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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)
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable): - ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , title 1: "From having held your dear hands", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Text added to the website: 2004-03-24.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:04
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Word count: 88
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From having held your dear hands
Language: English after the French (Français)
From having held your dear hands
in mine for so long,
this morning I still breathe
a penetrating odor
of verbena.
From having held my eyes
under the spell of yours for so long,
I still hold in my heart
their green-gray-blue-violet
luminosity.
All perfumes and all heavens
drip from your hands
or shine in your eyes.
Come closer. I don't want them
to be so far away.
Oh, come closer,
so that tomorrow
in a loving dream
I will still find
all these heavens on my path
with all their perfumes!
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Based on- a text in French (Français) by Jean Bénédict (1867 - 1914)
- This text was set to music by the following composer(s): Georges Adolphe Hüe. Go to the text.
Text added to the website: 2004-03-24.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:04
Line count: 21
Word count: 92
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