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

La chevelure
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
 Matches original text
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER GER ITA
Il m'a dit: « Cette nuit, j'ai rêvé.
J'avais ta chevelure autour de mon cou.
J'avais tes cheveux comme un collier noir
autour de ma nuque et sur ma poitrine.

« Je les caressais, et c'étaient les miens ;
et nous étions liés pour toujours ainsi,
par la même chevelure, la bouche sur la bouche,
ainsi que deux lauriers n'ont souvent qu'une racine.

« Et peu à peu, il m'a semblé,
tant nos membres étaient confondus,
que je devenais toi-même,
ou que tu entrais en moi comme mon songe. »

Quand il eut achevé,
il mit doucement ses mains sur mes épaules,
et il me regarda d'un regard si tendre,
que je baissai les yeux avec un frisson.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "La chevelure", L. 97/(90) no. 2 (1897-8) [ voice and piano ], from Chansons de Bilitis, no. 2

Text Authorship:

  • by Pierre-Félix Louis (1870 - 1925), as Pierre Louÿs, "La chevelure", appears in Les Chansons de Bilitis, in Bucoliques en Pamphylie, no. 31

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The hair", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , "Das Haar", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Das Haar", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "La chioma", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 117

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