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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Les Rêves
Language: French (Français) 
Les heures d’aimer passent brèves,
Lentes les heures de souffrir.
Le mal dont on ne veut guérir
S’endort dans la douceur des rêves.

Par les rêves nous sont rendus
Les baisers lointains des absentes ,
Les voix autrefois caressantes,
Les bonheurs à jamais perdus !

Les rêves nous ouvrent la porte
Éclatante du paradis.
Ce sont nos espoirs interdits,
Que leur aile en fuyant emporte !

Et comme à l’heure des reflux,
Sous la chanson des flots, des grèves,
S’endort dans la douceur des rêves
La détresse de n’aimer plus !

Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Les Rêves", appears in L'or des couchants, poésies nouvelles 1889-1892 [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 Gina Araújo Régis de Oliveira (1890 - 1960), "Les Rêves", 1906, published 1906 [ voice and piano ], Paris: Enoch et Cie. Ed. [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937), "Les Rêves", 1896-1898 [ medium voice and piano ], long unpublished, but available in the book ...exprimer l'inexprimable by Marius Flothuis, Rodopi, 1996 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by E. Savenay , "Les Rêves", published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies de E. Savenay, no. 2, Paris, Éd. L. Grus [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2018-06-25
Line count: 16
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