by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900)

Il pleure dans mon cœur
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT DUT ENG ENG GER GER SPA



        

        
J. Hetsch sets stanza 2 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information

J. Hetsch sets stanza 2 in (at least) one setting - see below for more information


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 1 Rostand: "pleut"

2 Debussy: "bruit"

3 Fauré, Rostand: "mon"; Madetoja: "le"

4 Fauré, Rostand: "Mon"



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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
  • CAT Catalan (Català) [singable]  (Núria Colomer)  , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Lidy van Noordenburg)  , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ENG English (Peter Low)  , "There is weeping in my heart", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • ENG English (Thomas Ang)  , "In my heart it weeps", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann)  , "Es weint in meinem Herzen", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé)  , "Es weint in meinem Herz", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission 
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado)  , copyright © 2020, (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: 80



        
Tears fall within my heart
 (Sung text for setting by G. Smirnov)
 See original

        
Language: English  after the French (Français) 

        

        
        
        
        
Tears fall within mine heart,
As rain upon the town:
Whence does this languor start,
Possessing all mine heart?
 
O sweet fall of the rain
Upon the earth and roofs!
Unto an heart in pain,
O music of the rain!
 
Tears that have no reason
Fall in my sorry heart:
What! there was no treason?
This grief hath no reason.

Nay! the more desolate,
Because I know not why,
(Neither for love nor hate)
Mine heart is desolate. 



        

        
Composition:
    Set to music  by Grigory Smirnov (b. 1985), "Tears fall within my heart", 2013, published 2013, first performed 2014 [ high voice and piano ], from  Dowson Songs, no. 1
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-24 
Line count: 16

Word count: 79