LiederNet logo

CONTENTS

×
  • Home | Introduction
  • Composers (20,103)
  • Text Authors (19,448)
  • Go to a Random Text
  • What’s New
  • A Small Tour
  • FAQ & Links
  • Donors
  • DONATE

UTILITIES

  • Search Everything
  • Search by Surname
  • Search by Title or First Line
  • Search by Year
  • Search by Collection

CREDITS

  • Emily Ezust
  • Contributors (1,114)
  • Contact Information
  • Bibliography

  • Copyright Statement
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us on Facebook

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Larmes en songe
Language: French (Français) 
Tout ceci n'est qu'un rêve :
Ta beauté sera brève,
Ton corps se flétrira,
Ton corps tendre mourra ;
Tout ceci n'est qu'un rêve.

Chaque forme qui passe
S'efface dans l'espace ;
Et j'adore à genoux
Le fantôme si doux
De ta forme qui passe.

Je t'adore et je pleure
Si courte sera l'heure
Où ma lèvre et ton front,
Tous les deux, goûteront
L'extase dont je pleure,

Dont je pleure et je tremble :
Nos cœurs s'étaient ensemble
Pour cet instant béni
Trouvés par l'infini ;
Et je t'adore et tremble.

— Car ceci n'est qu'un rêve :
Ta beauté sera brève,
Ton corps se flétrira,
Ton corps tendre mourra ;
Tout ceci n'est qu'un rêve !

Confirmed with Œuvres de Jean Lahor. L'illusion, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1925, pages 232-233.


Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Larmes en songe", written 1875?, appears in L'Illusion, in 3. La gloire du néant, no. 20, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1875 [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 Edmée Cazalis , "Larmes en songe" [ high voice and piano ], Éd. Bellon, Ponscarme [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-05-12
Line count: 25
Word count: 110

Gentle Reminder

This website began in 1995 as a personal project by Emily Ezust, who has been working on it full-time without a salary since 2008. Our research has never had any government or institutional funding, so if you found the information here useful, please consider making a donation. Your help is greatly appreciated!
–Emily Ezust, Founder

Donate

We use cookies for internal analytics and to earn much-needed advertising revenue. (Did you know you can help support us by turning off ad-blockers?) To learn more, see our Privacy Policy. To learn how to opt out of cookies, please visit this site.

I acknowledge the use of cookies

Contact
Copyright
Privacy

Copyright © 2025 The LiederNet Archive

Site redesign by Shawn Thuris