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by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs

La nuit s'éfface. Les étoiles...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG ENG GER
La nuit s'éfface. Les étoiles s'éloignent.
Voici que les dernières courtisanes 
sont rentrées avec les amants. 
Et moi, dans la pluie du matin, 
j'écris ces vers sur le sable.

Les feuilles sont chargées d'eau brillante. 
Des ruisseaux à travers les sentiers
entraînent la terre et les feuilles mortes.
La pluie, goutte à goutte, 
fait des trous dans ma chanson.

Oh! que je suis triste et seule ici! 
Les plus jeunes ne me regardent pas; 
les plus âgés m'ont oublieé.
C'est bien. Ils apprendront mes vers, 
et les enfants de leurs enfants.

Voilà ce que ni Myrtalê, ni Thaïs, 
ni Glykére ne se diront, 
le jour où leurs belles joues seront creuses.  
Ceux qui aimeront après moi 
chanteront mes strophes ensemble.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   C. Koechlin 

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Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "La pluie au matin", written 1894, appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Épigrammes dans l'Île de Chypre, no. 154, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897 [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 Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "La pluie au matin", published 1924 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Dandelot (1895 - 1975), "La pluie au matin", 1929, published 1931, first performed 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Chansons de Bilitis, 2ème recueil, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "La pluie au matin", L. 102/(96) no. 12, from Chansons de Bilitis, no. 12, note: incidental music to accompany the recitation of twelve prose poems. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Miriam Gideon (1906 - 1996), "La pluie au matin", 1930, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Pluie au matin", op. 39 no. 2 (1898-1907), published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], from Chansons de Bilitis, no. 2, Éditions Maurice Senart [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Sarah Daughtrey) , "Morning rain", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Marvin J. Ward) , "The Morning Rain", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Morgenregen", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Sarah Daughtrey

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 122

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