Against your pale breast my heart sleeps

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

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Sur ton sein pâle mon cœur dort

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: DUT ENG GER

Sur ton sein pâle mon cœur dort
D'un sommeil doux comme la mort :
Mort exquise, mort parfumée
Du souffle de la bien aimée :
Sur un lys pâle mon cœur dort ...

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Confirmed with Jean Lahor, L'Illusion, Paris, A. Lemerre, 1906, page 90.

Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, in Nocturnes, no. 1, first published 1875 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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Against your pale breast my heart sleeps

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Language: English after the French (Français)

Against your pale breast my heart sleeps
A sleep as sweet as death:
An exquisite death, a death perfumed
With the breath of the beloved: 
Against a pale lily my heart sleeps.

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"Extase" = "Ecstasy"
"Nocturne" = "Nocturne"

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a text in French (Français) by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, no title, appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, in Nocturnes, no. 1, first published 1875
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