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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Notre Amour
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG ITA
Notre amour est chose légère
Comme les parfums que le vent
Prend aux cimes de la fougère
Pour qu'on les respire en rêvant.
-- Notre amour est chose légère !

Notre amour est chose charmante,
Comme les chansons du matin
Où nul regret ne se lamente,
Où vibre un espoir incertain.
-- Notre amour est chose charmante !

Notre amour est chose sacrée
Comme les mystères des bois
Où tressaille une âme ignorée,
Où les silences ont des voix.
-- Notre amour est chose sacrée !

Notre amour est chose infinie,
Comme les chemins des couchants
Où la mer, aux cieux réunie,
S'endort sous les soleils penchants.
[-- Notre amour est chose infinie !]1

Notre amour est chose éternelle
Comme tout ce qu'un dieu vainqueur
A touché du feu de son aile,
Comme tout ce qui vient du cœur,
-- Notre amour est chose éternelle !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Fauré 

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1 omitted by Fauré.

Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), "Notre Amour", written 1878, appears in Les Ailes d’Or, poésies nouvelles 1878-1880, in 5. Vers pour être chantés, no. 14, first published 1880 [author's text not yet checked 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 Léon Boëllmann (1862 - 1897), "Notre amour" [ high voice, piano, and cello obbligato ], Édition Rouart, Lerolle & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Notre Amour", op. 23 no. 2 (1879?), published 1882, orchestrated 1923 by Henri-Paul Büsser [ voice and piano ], Éditions J. Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Cayetano Troiani (1873 - 1942), "Notre amour", published 1923 [ high voice and piano ], from Douze Mélodies, no. 8, G. Ricordi e C. [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "El nostre amor", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Our love", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Enrico Magnani) , "Il nostro amore", copyright © 2009, (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: 25
Word count: 139

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