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Lune de cuivre -- Parfums lourds ... Comme des lampes sous un dôme, Les astres [brûlent]1, l'heure embaume; Des fleurs dorment dans le velours. L'âme en langueur des jardins sourds Exhale d'étouffants arômes. L'eau des porphyres polychromes Dans les bassins pleure toujours. Nulle ombre de feuille qui bouge... Seule, ta lèvre éclate, rouge, A la flamme du haut flambeau; Et tu sembles, dans l'air nocturne, Dure et fatale comme l'urne Impénétrable d'un tombeau.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Leguerney: "luisent"
Text Authorship:
- by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), no title, written 1893, appears in Au jardin de l'Infante, in 1. Les Heures d'été, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897 [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 René-Emmanuel Baton (1879 - 1940), as Rhené-Baton, "Lune de cuivre", op. 14 no. 3 (1906), published 1908-1910 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les heures d'été, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Albert Bertelin (1872 - 1951), "Nocturne d'été " [ high voice and piano ], from Dix Poésies tirées du Jardin de l'Infante de A. Samain, no. 1, Paris, Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
- by Émile-Henri-J.-B. Defosse (1883 - 1956), "Heure d'été", published 1930 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Durand [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Leguerney (1906 - 1997), "Nuit d'été", 1930, published 1988, first performed 1986 [ soprano and piano ], from Quatre mélodies, no. 2, Éditions Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Adolphe Piriou (1878 - 1964), "Lune de cuivre", op. 1 no. 2 (1905), published 1910 [ high voice and piano ], from Les Heures d'été, no. 2, Éd. Société d'éditions musicales (Ancien fonds Pierre Dupont) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Guillaume de Sauville de la Presle (1888 - 1969), "Lune de cuivre - Parfums lourds", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], from Heures d'été, no. 5, Éd. Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jacques Vaucamps , "Lune de cuivre", published 1919 [ medium voice and piano ], from Les Heures d'été, no. 3, Éd. Albert Zunz Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
- by Adolf Waterman (1886 - 1966), "Lune de cuivre, parfums lourds", copyright © 1927 [ voice and piano ], from Heures d'été, no. 2, Costallat-2112-Paris [sung text not yet checked]
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- CHI Chinese (中文) (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2009-07-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 73
Moon of copper... heavy perfumes... like lamps under a dome, the stars burn, the hour spreads fragrance; flowers are asleep in velvet. The languorous soul of the muffled gardens exhales stifling aromas. The water flowing over the polychrome rocks weeps constantly into the pools. No moving shadow of a leaf... Only your lips shine out, red, lit by the high torch flame; and you seem, in the night air, to be hard and fatal like an urn, the impenetrable urn of a tomb.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Albert Victor Samain (1858 - 1900), no title, written 1893, appears in Au jardin de l'Infante, in 1. Les Heures d'été, no. 3, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1897
This text was added to the website: 2022-08-24
Line count: 14
Word count: 83