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by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969)

Dame du soir
Language: French (Français) 
Dame du soir,	
Les anémones	
Qui vous couronnent	
Ont le cœur noir	
Et sont peut-être des démones

Dans les couvents	
Les mains des nonnes	
Consciences bonnes	
Et cœurs fervents	
Font des couronnes de démones

Pris en vos mains	
Les grains de sable	
Chantent des fables	
Des soirs marains	
Et sont peut-être bien des diables

Dame du soir,	
De ces lierres	
Liés aux pierres	
Du doux savoir	
La feuille est peut-être sorcière.

Mais les errants	
Qui se lièrent 
Croient le lierre	
Gardien des temps	
D'amour en sa feuille sorcière.

Du flot des mers	
Qui vous caresse	
Les lames blessent 
Mes bras déserts	
Ce sont peut-être des diablesses

Mais l'inconstant	
Prie à la messe	
Fait des promesses	
Et cœur battant	
Quitte l'amour pour des diablesses.	

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Later titled "Ballade nocturne" in L'Alphabet des aveux

Text Authorship:

  • by Louise de Vilmorin (1902 - 1969), "Les Hallucinations de Valdemosa", written 1948, appears in Mouvements du cœur [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 Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974), "Ballade nocturne", op. 296 (1949), published 1949, first performed 1949 [ low voice and piano ], from Mouvements du cœur: Suite de 7 mélodies en hommage à Chopin, no. 6, Édition 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2016-04-19
Line count: 35
Word count: 123

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