Un grand sommeil noir Tombe sur ma vie : Dormez, tout espoir, Dormez, toute envie ! Je ne vois plus rien, Je perds la mémoire Du mal et du bien... Ô la triste histoire ! Je suis un berceau Qu'une main balance Au creux d'un caveau : Silence, silence !
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Originally titled Berceuse (Cellulairement, no. 8).
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1873, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 5, first published 1880
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- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
- ENG English (Corinne Orde) , copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Egy álom", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Безмерный чёрный сон мне сковал сознанье. Огонь усыплён, и спят все желанья. Пустота та кругом, все грани смешались меж злом и добром, о, немая усталость! Мой дух-колыбели пустое качанье сквозь темную шель, молчанье... молчанье...
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- Set to music by Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), no title, published 1970 [ voice and piano ], Moscow, Musika
Text Authorship:
- by Valentina Iosifovna Ramm (1888 - 1968)
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- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1873, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 5, first published 1880
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