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 la vie importune,
Je me viens perdre en 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 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.

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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