by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907)
L'aube blanche See original
Language: French (Français)
L'aube blanche dit à mon rêve:
"Éveille-toi, le soleil luit".
Mon âme écoute et je soulève
Un peu mes paupières vers lui.
Un rayon de lumière touche
La pâle fleur de mes yeux bleus;
Une flamme éveille ma bouche,
Un souffle éveille mes cheveux.
Et mon âme, comme une rose
Tremblante, lente, tout le jour,
S'éveille à la beauté des choses,
Comme mon âme à leur amour.
...
Composition:
- Set to music by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "L'aube blanche", op. 95 no. 5 (1906), published 1906, stanzas 1-3 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from La Chanson d'Ève, no. 5, Éd. Heugel
Text Authorship:
- by Charles van Lerberghe (1861 - 1907), no title, written 1903, appears in La Chanson d'Ève, in 1. Premières paroles, no. 14, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1904
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Pieter van der Woel) , "Het witte ochtendgloren", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "The white dawn", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Der weiße Morgendämmer", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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