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by Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897)

Nocturne tendre
Language: French (Français) 
Pour lampe nous aurons ce soir 
Vos feux qui percent le ciel noir
Etoiles scintillants !
Et nous prendrons pour oreiller,
S'il nous convient de sommeiller,
Les mousses odorantes.

Est-il un plus heureux séjour 
Avec sa paix profonde !
Restons ici jusques au jour 
En oubliant le monde.
Sous les légers et verts rideaux
Qu'étendent pour nous les bouleaux 
D'amour le cœur s'inonde.

[Lui :] Pour nous bercer jusques au jour
Nous parlerons de notre amour !
Ô douce nuit, charmes sans cesse,
Nos sens remplis de ton ivresse !

[Elle :] Est-il un plus heureux séjour !
Douce nuit d'amoureuse ivresse,
Puisses-tu nous charmer sans cesse !

Ah ! Couvre-nous jusques au jour,
Couvre-nous bien jusques au jour !

Note: Hignard sets the song as a duet. The two voices sing together for the first 2 stanzas. Then stanzas 3 and 4 are sung simultaneously, 3 by the male voice (Lui) and 4 by the female (Elle). The two voices rejoin for the final couplet.

Text Authorship:

  • by Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897) [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 Jean-Louis Aristide Hignard (1822 - 1897), "Nocturne tendre", published [1884] [ vocal duet for mezzo-soprano and tenor with piano ], from Rimes et mélodies, série III, no. 24, Paris, Éditions Louis Gregh et Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-09-11
Line count: 22
Word count: 112

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