Chanson triste | Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG GER GER JPN SPA

Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune,
Un doux clair de lune d'été,
[Et loin de]¹ la vie importune,
Je me [viens perdre en]² ta clarté.

J'oublierai les douleurs passées,
Mon amour, quand tu berceras
Mon triste cœur et mes pensées
Dans le calme aimant de tes bras.

Tu prendras ma tête malade,
Oh ! [certain soir sur]³ tes genoux,
Et lui diras une ballade
Qui semblera parler de nous ;

Et dans tes yeux pleins de tristesse,
Dans tes yeux alors je boirai
Tant de baisers et de tendresses
Que peut-être je guérirai.

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• H. Duparc • C. Saint-Saëns

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Confirmed with L'Illusion, troisième édition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, p. 16.

¹ Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "Et pour fuir"
² Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "noierai dans"
³ Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "quelquefois, sur"

Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Chanson triste", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, first published 1875 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Albert Bertelin (1872 - 1951), "Chanson triste" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 4, Éd. Loret Fils et H. Freytag [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Chanson triste", op. 8 no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes de Jean Lahor, no. 1, Éd. Le Bailly, O. Bornemann [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard Desmangles , "Chanson triste", 1939-41 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933), "Chanson triste", 1868/1869, orchestrated 1912 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Daniel Fleuret (1869 - 1915), "Chanson triste", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], from L'Illusion, poème en neuf chants de Jean Lahor, no. 1, Lyon, Éd. Janin Frères [sung text not yet checked]
by Albert Lebail , "Chanson triste", published [1917] [ high voice and piano ], Choisy-Le-Roi [sung text not yet checked]
by Germain Letel , "Chanson triste", published [1921] [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Dans ton cœur", <<2011 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Dans ton cœur", 1872, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand, Schoenewerk & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
by Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger (1876 - 1941), "Chanson triste", 1911 [ soprano and piano ], Zentralbibliothek Zürich, MS [sung text not yet checked]

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