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by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)

Nuit d'étoiles
 (Sung text for setting by C. Debussy)
 See original
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG ENG GER SPA
Nuit d'étoiles, sous tes voiles,
sous ta brise et tes parfums,
Triste lyre qui soupire,
je rêve aux amours défunts.

La sereine mélancolie vient éclore
au fond de mon coeur,
Et j'entends l'âme de ma mie
Tressaillir dans le bois rêveur.

 ... 

Je revois à notre fontaine 
tes regards bleus comme les cieux;
Cette rose, c'est ton haleine,
Et ces étoiles sont tes yeux.

Note: The poem has the following epigraph:

Je me promenais dans un jardin délicieux : sous
l'épais gazon on voyait des violettes et des roses
dont le doux parfum embaumait l'air. Un son doux et
harmonieux se faisait entendre, et une tendre clarté
éclairait le paysage. Les fleurs semblaient
tressaillir de bonheur et exhaler de doux soupirs.
Tout à coup, je crus m'apercevoir que j'étais 
moi-même le chant que j'entendais, et que je mourais.
  -- Hoffmann.

Composition:

    Set to music by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Nuit d'étoiles", L. 2/(4) (1880), stanzas 1,2,4 [ voice and piano ]

Text Authorship:

  • by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "La dernière Pensée de Weber", written 1845, appears in Les Stalactites, no. 32, first published 1846

See other settings of this text.

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
  • ENG English [singable] (Samuel Byrne) , "Starry night"
  • ENG English (Melissa Malde) , "Night of stars", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) [singable] (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2017, (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: 85

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