Je rêve, et la pâle rosée
Language: French (Français)
Je rêve, et la pâle rosée
Dans les plaines perle sans bruit,
Sur le duvet des fleurs posée
Par la main fraîche de la nuit.
D'où viennent ces tremblantes gouttes ?
Il ne pleut pas, le temps est clair ;
C'est qu'avant de se former, toutes,
Elles étaient déjà dans l'air.
D'où viennent mes pleurs ? Toute flamme,
Ce soir, est douce au fond des cieux ;
C'est que je les avais dans l'âme
Avant de les sentir aux yeux.
On a dans l'âme une tendresse
Où tremblent toutes les douleurs,
Et c'est parfois une caresse
Qui trouble, et fait germer les pleurs.
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Text Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Henri-Paul Büsser (1872 - 1973), "Rosées" [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustavo Ernesto Campa (1863 - 1934), "Les rosées" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gaston Carraud (1864 - 1920), "Rosées" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éditions H. Tellier [sung text not yet checked]
- by (François-Clément) Théodore Dubois (1837 - 1924), "Rosées" [ medium voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, recueil 1, no. 11, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gustave Kéfer (b. 1855), "Rosées", op. 2 no. 1 [ medium voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies, no. 1, Leipzig, Éd. Otto Junne [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2008-09-23
Line count: 16
Word count: 99
I dream, and in the plains
Language: English after the French (Français)
I dream, and in the plains
the pale dew pearls noiselessly
on the downy flowers where it is placed
by the cool hand of night.
Where do these trembling drops come from?
It is not raining, the weather is fine.
The truth is: before any of them were formed
they were all already in the air.
Where do my tears come from? Every flame
is gentle this evening in the depths of the sky.
The truth is: I had them already in my soul
before I felt them in my eyes.
We have in our souls a tenderness
in which all kinds of pain are trembling,
and sometimes a caress is the thing
that disturbs us, and makes the tears well up.
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Translations of titles
"Les rosées" = "The Dew"
"Rosées" = "The Dew"
Text Authorship:
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This text was added to the website: 2022-10-31
Line count: 16
Word count: 122
