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Oh! quand je dors, viens auprès de ma couche, comme à Pétrarque apparaissait Laura, Et qu'en passant ton haleine me touche... Soudain ma bouche S'entrouvrira! Sur mon front morne où peut-être s'achève Un songe noir qui trop longtemps dura, Que ton regard comme un astre se lève... [Soudain]1 mon rêve Rayonnera! Puis sur ma lèvre où voltige une flamme, Éclair d'amour que Dieu même épura, Pose un baiser, et d'ange deviens femme... Soudain mon âme S'éveillera!
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Liszt: "Et soudain"
Text Authorship:
- by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, appears in Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 27, first published 1840 [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), "Oh ! quand je dors", published 2009 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies pour chant et piano - Cantares viejos y nuevos de Galicia, par Margarita Soto Viso, no. 5, Éd. Fundacion Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Conde de Fenosa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875), "Oh! Quand je dors", 1868-1873 [ tenor and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Joseph Casorati , "Oh quand je dors" [ high voice and piano ], Milano, Frat. Buffa [sung text not yet checked]
- by Vladimir Castrioto-Scanderberg (1820 - 1879), "Oh! quand je dors" [sung text not yet checked]
- by Carl Chesneau (1836 - 1884), "Quand je dors", <<1874 [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch Père & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Amédée Dethou (1811 - 1877), "Oh ! Quand je dors", 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. 2, Paris, Imprimerie Bouchard [sung text not yet checked]
- by Bernard van Dieren (1887 - 1936), "Les rayons et les ombres XXVII", alternate title: "Oh ! quand je dors", published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], Oxford University Press [sung text not yet checked]
- by André Gédalge (1856 - 1926), "Quand je dors", unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jenő Hubay (1858 - 1937), "Oh! Quand je dors", op. 12 (Trois Mélodies) no. 3, published 1882 [ voice and piano ], Cranz [sung text not yet checked]
- by Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892), "Oh! Quand je dors", op. 17 (6 Mélodies) no. 5 (1856) [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Franz (Ferenc) Liszt (1811 - 1886), "Oh! Quand je dors", S. 282 (1842-1849), published 1844-1859 [ voice and piano ], also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Victor Massé (1822 - 1884), "À une femme", published [1869] [ voice and piano ], Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
- by Luigi Pantaleoni (d. 1872), "Oh ! quand je dors" [ high voice and piano ], from Album dédié à S.A. Reale Penelope Carolina di Borbone, Principessa di Capua, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile Pessard (1843 - 1917), "Oh! Quand je dors", published 1873 [ medium voice and piano ], from Joyeusetés de bonne compagnie, recueillies et mises en musique, no. 11, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Rodriguez (1829 - 1901), "Serenata", 1851 [ medium voice and piano ], from Coleccion de Melodias, no. 7, Barcelona, Édition Juan Batista Pujol [sung text not yet checked]
Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:
- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874) ; composed by Franz Liszt.
- Also set in Spanish (Español), a translation by José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo (1833 - 1912) , "Cuando yo duerma", written 1856 ; composed by Guillermo Uribe Holguín.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "喔!當我沈睡", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) (Mei Foong Ang) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Emily Ezust) , "Oh! when I sleep", copyright ©
- ENG English [singable] (Peter Low) , "Oh while I sleep", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English [singable] (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist) , "O in my dreams"
- POR Portuguese (Português) (Margarida Moreno) , "Oh! Quando durmo", copyright © 2011, (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: 15
Word count: 76
喔!當我沈入睡,你來到我的床邊, 就如同佩脫拉克出現在羅拉面前一般, 我感覺到你那溫柔的氣息, 在我的唇邊, 輕輕吹送! 我憂鬱的臉,或許可以 從那久存的夢魘中解脫。 你的雙眸如同升起的繁星, 在我的夢中 發出光芒! 在我炙熱的雙唇上,你輕輕掠過, 那純真的愛, 你輕輕地吻著,如同天使般 在我心中, 輕輕浮現!
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Translations of title(s):
"À une femme" = "對一個女子"
"Les rayons et les ombres XXVII" = "光线和阴影 XXVII"
"Quand je dors" = "當我沈入睡"
"Oh! quand je dors" = "喔!當我沈入睡"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Chinese (中文) copyright © 2018 by Mei Foong Ang, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), no title, appears in Les Rayons et les Ombres, no. 27, first published 1840
This text was added to the website: 2018-02-13
Line count: 15
Word count: 15