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by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901)

Un souffle de parfums s'élève
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Un souffle de parfums s'élève
Des taillis profonds, où son rêve
Suivait le vol d'un long espoir ...
Me vient-il de sa lèvre amie ?
-- Non ! ce sont les fleurs que le soir
Mêle à bruyère endormie.

Une musique douce et frèle
Sur mes pas murmure pour elle
L'adieu à tout ce qu'elle fuit...
Mon Dieu, j'entends sa voix dans l'ombre.
-- Non ! c'est la chanson que la nuit
Apprend tout bas au grand bois sombre.

Nuit auguste, bois solitaire
Qui voilez d'un double mystère
Le secret des bonheurs passés,
Rendez-moi l'haleine embaumée,
Et les cheveux des fleurs tressés,
Et la voix de la bien-aimée !

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Text Authorship:

  • by Armand Silvestre (1837 - 1901), no title, appears in Poésies 1861-1874, in 1. Les amours, in 2. Vers pour être chantés, in Mignonne, no. 19 [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 (François-Clément) Théodore Dubois (1837 - 1924), "Chant du soir", published 1883 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt Mélodies, no. 15, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912), "Un souffle de parfums" [ voice and piano ], from Poème du souvenir, no. 3, Paris, Éd. J. Heugel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Edmond Michotte (1831 - 1914), "Bonheurs passés" [ high voice and piano ], from Mignonne, no. 17, Bruxelles, Schott Frères [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Georg Friedrich Reiß (1823 - 1884) ; composed by Jules Massenet.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Jean-Pierre Granger)


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 102

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