L'aube naît, et ta porte est close !
[Ma]1 belle, pourquoi sommeiller ?
À l'heure où s'éveille la rose
Ne vas-tu pas te réveiller ?

   Ô ma charmante, 
   Écoute ici 
   L'amant qui chante
   Et pleure aussi !

Toute frappe à ta porte bénie.
L'aurore dit : Je suis le jour !
L'oiseau dit : Je suis l'harmonie !
Et [mon cœur]2 dit : Je suis l'amour!

   Ô ma charmante, 
   Écoute ici 
   L'amant qui chante
   Et pleure aussi !

Je t'adore, ange, [et]3 t'aime, femme.
Dieu qui [pour]4 toi m'a complété
A fait mon amour [par]5 ton âme,
Et mon regard pour ta beauté !

   Ô ma charmante,
   Écoute ici 
   L'amant qui chante
   Et pleure aussi !

C. Gounod sets stanzas 1-4
F. d'Erlanger sets stanzas 1-3

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Confirmed with Victor Hugo, Œuvres complètes, Volume 1, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Editions gallimard, 1964, page 876.

¹ Donizetti: "Ô ma"
² Gounod: "moi je"
³ Donizetti: "je"
⁴ Koreshchenko, Lacombe: "par"
⁵ Donizetti, Koreshchenko, Lacombe, Lalo, Godard: "pour"

Authorship:

• by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), "Autre chanson", appears in Les Chants du Crépuscule, no. 23 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

• by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Aubade", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 23a, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
• by Marcial del Adalid (1826 - 1881), "Aubade", published 2009 [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 23c, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
• by Joseph Henry Altès (1826 - 1895), "Autre chanson", op. 26 no. 5, published [1865?] [ voice and piano or orchestra ], from 15 Mélodies, no. 5, Paris, Éd. Simon Richault [sung text not yet checked]
• by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Aubade", published <<1917 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 4e série, no. 66, Paris, Maurice Sénart; note: this may be the wrong text for this title [sung text not yet checked]
• by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (1867 - 1944), "Chanson d'amour", op. 21 (Three Songs) no. 1 (1893?), published 1899 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Louis Désiré Besozzi (1814 - 1879), "L'Aubade", published [1867] [ high voice, unaccompanied ], Paris, Éd. Mme Maeyens-Couvreur [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles-Samuel Bovy-Lysberg (1821 - 1873), "L'aube naît", subtitle: "Sérénade", published [1889] [ low voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies posthumes, no. 1, Éd. "Au Ménestrel" Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Laure Brice , "Chant du crépuscule" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. A. Fabereau [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gustavo Ernesto Campa (1863 - 1934), "Aubade" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Aleksandr Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (1813 - 1869), "Ô ma charmante!", 1836 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alfred Dassier (1836 - 1913), "A l'heure où s'éveille la rose ", subtitle: "Aubade pour Ténor", published [1887] [ tenor, unaccompanied ], Paris, Éd. Brandus & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
• by Amédée Dethou (1811 - 1877), "Sérénade", published [1859] [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies sur des poësies de Victor Hugo et de Ronsard, Bertaut, Desportes et Passerat, Poëtes du XVIè siècle, no. 7, Paris, Imprimerie Bouchard [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charlotte Devéria, née Thomas (1856 - 1885), "Aubade", <<1877 [ high voice and piano ], from 16 Mélodies pour chant avec accompagnement de piano, no. 12 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848), "Le crépuscule", 1836 [ voice and piano ], from Nuits d'Été à Pausilippe, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Henri d'Ech , "Barcarolle d'Angelo", <<1892 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. G. Courleux [sung text not yet checked]
• by Frédéric d'Erlanger, Baron, dit Regnal (1868 - 1943), "Aubade", published 1895, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ], from Album of Six Songs, no. 1, London: Willcocks & Co., also set in English [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830 - 1914), "L'aubade", subtitle: "Ô ma charmante" [ baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
• by Benjamin Louis Paul Godard (1849 - 1895), "Chanson", op. 7 no. 4 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a CD booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893), "Aubade", CG 330 (c1849), published 1855, stanzas 1-4 [ voice and piano ], from 6 mélodies, no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Emilie Greger , "Oh! ma Charmante", published 1876 [ voice and piano ], Budapest, Pirnitzer  [sung text not yet checked]
• by Halfdan Kjerulf (1815 - 1868), "Chanson", op. 9 (Six romances françaises) no. 5 (1861) [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko (1870 - 1921), "Sérénade", op. 2 (Романсы и Песни) no. 4, published 1893 [ voice and piano ], also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Léon Charles François Kreutzer (1817 - 1868), "Aubade" [ high voice and piano ], from 26 mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 6, Éd. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis (Trouillon) Lacombe (1818 - 1884), "Ô ma charmante" [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "L'aube naît, et ta porte est close!", op. 17 (6 Mélodies) no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
• by (Alexandre) Charles Lecocq (1832 - 1918), "Ta porte est close" [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Nouvelle chanson sur un vieil air", 1865, published 1872 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. G. Hartmann [sung text not yet checked]
• by Bernard de Maupas , "Ô ma charmante" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Harrison Millard (1830 - 1895), "Oh! Ma charmante", copyright © 1870 [ voice and piano ], New York, Ditson [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Joseph de Montbron, Comte (1831 - 1916), "Aubade", published [1874] [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies du Comte Joseph de Montbron, no. 3, Éd. Maison Flaxland, Durand, Schoenewerck et Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Gabriel Pierné (1863 - 1937), "Aubade" [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Adolf Reichel (1820 - 1896), "Le crépuscule", published [1847] [ high voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. S. Richault [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jakob Rosenhain (1813 - 1894), "L'aube naît et ta porte est close", subtitle: "Sérénade", published [1865] [ voice, unaccompanied ], Paris, Éd. A. Huré [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Sebastian Benson Schlesinger (1837 - 1917), "Chanson", op. 75 no. 4 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, A. Quinzard [sung text not yet checked]
• by Anton Yulyevich Simon (1850 - 1916), "Chanson", op. 14 no. 7, published 1915 [ tenor and piano ], from Vingt mélodies (Двадцать мелодий), no. 17, Moscow, Éd. P. Jurgenson, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846 - 1916), "O ma charmante!", 1876, published 1877 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
• by Cayetano Troiani (1873 - 1942), "Autre Chanson", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies, no. 2, G. Ricordi e C. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Jean-Baptiste Théodore Weckerlin (1821 - 1910), "L'aube naît " [ high voice and piano ], from 25 Mélodies de J.B. Weckerlin, no. 15, Éd. Durand & Schoenewerck [sung text not yet checked]
• by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "Aubade", op. 22 no. 3 (1875) [ high voice and piano ], from Quarante mélodies, no. 9, Éd. J. Hamelle ; note: also published as op. 22 no. 6 in 6 Mélodies as reprinted by Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
• by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "L'aube naît et ta porte est close !" [ medium voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 6, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

• Also set in English, a translation by Toru Dutt (1856 - 1877) [an adaptation] ; composed by Clara Kathleen Rogers.
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• Also set in English, a translation by Francis Charles Philips (1849 - 1921) ; composed by Frédéric d'Erlanger, Baron, dit Regnal.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Ekaterina Kletnova (1869 - 1938) , no title ; composed by Arseny Nikolayevich Koreshchenko.
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• Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Anton Yulyevich Simon.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Toru Dutt) , appears in A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields, 2nd edition
• ENG English (John Glenn Paton) , copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Research team for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Malcolm Wren [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 116

Pretty one, tho' the morning is breaking
Thy lattice is fasten'd close.
How is it that thou art not waking
When awake is the rose?

Darling, arise! 
for I am he 
Thy lover who sighs 
and sings to thee.

Nature loud at thy lattice is beating:
I am Day says the morning above.
I am Music the bird sings repeating,
And my heart cries "I am Love!"