There is weeping in my heart

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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Translation © by Peter Low

Il pleure dans mon cœur

Language: French (Français)

Available translation(s): CAT ENG ENG GER GER SPA

Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville ;
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur ?

Ô bruit doux de la pluie,
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un cœur qui s'ennuie,
Ô le [chant]¹ de la pluie !

Il pleure sans raison
Dans [ce]² cœur qui s'écœure.
Quoi! nulle trahison ? ...
[Ce]³ deuil est sans raison.

C'est bien la pire peine,
De ne savoir pourquoi
Sans amour et sans haine
Mon cœur a tant de peine!

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¹ Debussy: "bruit"
² Fauré: "mon"; Madetoja: "le"
³ Fauré: "Mon"

Authorship:

by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Sens, Typographie de Maurice L'Hermite, first published 1874 [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 Victor-Sylvain Absalon (1886 - 1962), "Heure grise", published 1923 [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Buyst [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Anglebel (d. 1949), "Le chant de la pluie", published 1911 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
by Max Arham (flourished 1911-1917), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1914 [ voice and piano ], from Douze mélodies, 3e série, no. 53, Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Charly Bailly (b. 1921), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", alternate title: "varel", [1946] [ voice and piano ], slow chant [sung text not yet checked]
by Karl Baraquin (b. 1968), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [sung text not yet checked]
by Richard Barthélemy (1869 - 1955), "Peines de cœur", [1906] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges Beaucaire , "Le chant de la pluie", [1907], published 1910 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hayet [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Beaumont (1866 - 1932), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Armand Bernaert (1888 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1920] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Michel Bernard , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hubert Bertrand , "Il pleure dans mon cœur ", [1973] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Boite (b. 1918) and by René Chavée , "Nostalgie", [1955] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Raymond Bonheur (1861 - 1939), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], three versions ; unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Bordes d'Anzy (b. 1905), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 23 no. 5, published 1925 [ high voice and piano ], from Sept Poésies de Paul Verlaine = Sieben Gedichte von Paul Verlaine, no. 5, Leipzig, Milan: Éd. Elite No. 205 Edition D. Rahter (4408), also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Marie-Rose Bresson , "Tristesse automnale", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Marchetti [sung text not yet checked]
by Marguerite Canal (1890 - 1978), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1941] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Victor-Charles Candillier (1907 - 1968), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1945] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by John Alden Carpenter (1876 - 1951), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Four Poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1, New York, Schirmer [sung text not yet checked]
by André-Pierre Codou , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Suzanne Coquelin , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1910, published 1911 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. Édouard Jouve [sung text not yet checked]
by J. Dagand , "Ariette", op. 101 no. 3 (<<1920) [ high voice and piano ], from Chants gothiques, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Darras (b. 1922), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1945] [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Rousselot [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", L. 63/(60) no. 2 (1885-7), published 1888 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 2, Paris, Vve E. Girod [sung text checked 1 time]
by Valéry Delfolie , "Mélodie tchèque", published 1943 [ voice unaccompanied ], arrangement ; Paris, Chambéry ; in Trésor des plus belles mélodies de tous les pays [sung text not yet checked]
by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1895, published 1896 [ voice and piano ], from Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Grus [sung text checked 1 time]
by Édouard Desmangles , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1939-41 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard-Léon-Stéphen Detraux (d. 1911), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1907 [ voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Hachette [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrice Devanchy (1876 - 1942), as Louis Charles, "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1912 [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Paris, Éditions Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Madeleine Dubois , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Dupont (1878 - 1914), "La pluie", 1895 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Jean Dussault , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1939] [ voice and piano ], Paris, J. Dussault [sung text not yet checked]
by Sixten Eckerberg (1909 - 1991), "Nocturne", [1942] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Spleen", op. 51 no. 3 (1888), published 1889 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
by Paul Fiévet (1892 - 1980), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1922 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Deiss et Crépin [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard-Ernest Fillacier (d. 1935), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1918] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Rodolphe de Foras , "Il pleure", 1904 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Frings (1891 - 1965), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], Paris, Junne et fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Eduardo García Mansilla (1871 - 1930), "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], from Cinq poèmes, no. 2, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph-Pierre Gauthier, dit Claude Gauthier (b. 1939), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1960 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Gaveau (1891 - 1942), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by A. Getty , "Pluie !", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Giraud and by Jacques Mendel , "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", published [1959] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Gabriel Grovlez (1879 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1902, published [1905] [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Pauline Hall (1890 - 1969), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Hugo Herrmann (1896 - 1967), "Ariette", 1950 [ voice and piano ], from Sérénata, no. 3, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros , "O bruit doux", published 1967 [ vocal trio ], from Verlaine, no. 2, canon ; Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Hetsch and by Christian Legros , "O bruit doux", published 1967 [ voice, four-part chorus, guitar ], from Verlaine, no. 3, Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
by Jules-Ernest Hubert (d. 1951), "La pluie", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], from Les saisons et les heures, no. 17, Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by Fernand-Raphaël Israël , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1906] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by T. Jousselin , "La pluie", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 22 (Quatre mélodies) no. 4, published 1900-1 [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Philippo [sung text checked 1 time]
by Josef Koffler (1896 - 1943), "Ariette oubliées", op. 22 (Quatre poèmes pour chant et piano) no. 2, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Alfred André Simon Kullmann (1875 - 1963), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies, 2ème série, no. 2, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
by Anatole Lancel (1850 - c1903), "Le chant de la pluie", published 1895 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ondet [sung text not yet checked]
by Narcisse Prosper Zacharie Lavenant (1877 - 1946), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. E. Moullé [sung text not yet checked]
by Madeleine Lemariey , "Chant de la pluie", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 2, Paris, Édition Maurice Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by René Lenormand (1846 - 1932), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1893 [ voice and piano ], from Mélodies tristes, no. 1, Paris, Durdilly [sung text not yet checked]
by Franck-Robert Lhomme , "Tristesse", 1933 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri-Marie Lincé, dit Hella (1886 - 1960), "Ariette", published 1950 [ voice and piano ], Paris, H. Lincé [sung text not yet checked]
by Dinu Lipatti (1917 - 1950), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 9 no. 3 (1941), published 1985, from Cinq Mélodies sur des Poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 3, note: published in Romania as Cinci Lieduri pe Versuri de Verlaine, Bucarest, Editura muzicala [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri Lluis , "Tristesse", 1920 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Henri-Édouard-Joseph Logé (1854 - 1912), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1894] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Marcel Louvat , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1912 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ducrotois [sung text not yet checked]
by Arturo Luzzatti (1875 - 1959), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Office musical [sung text not yet checked]
by Leevi Antti Madetoja (1887 - 1947), "Romance sans paroles", op. 36 (1916), published 1916, first performed 1916 [ voice and piano ], Helsingfors, Fazer [sung text checked 1 time]
by Charles Mancel, dit Charles Netley (1873 - 1956), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1925] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Suzanne-Marie Marinier , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1927 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Mathilde Martinon , "Chansons tristes III", published [1929] [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons tristes, no. 4, Éd. B. Roudanez [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Mawet (1875 - 1947), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], from Ariettes oubliées, no. 1, Bruxelles, L. Mawet [sung text not yet checked]
by Paul de Meleingreau , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published [1921] [ voice and piano ], Paris, Lauwerijns [sung text not yet checked]
by Maria Mérina , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1905] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Lydie Michaïloff (1893 - 1979), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published <<1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Joseph Michel , "Il pleure dans mon cœur " [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Il pleure dans mon cœur ", op. 53 no. 3 (1994), published 2005 [ voice and piano ], from Six Ariettes Oubliées nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 3, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Patrick Minette (b. 1962), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 2004 [ medium voice, piano, and contrabass ad libitum ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Georges (Jerzy) Nawrocki , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", <<1971 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Nérini (1882 - 1961), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1908 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Du Wast ; X. Gilles [sung text not yet checked]
by M. de Nevers , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Dupont [sung text not yet checked]
by Frits Noske (b. 1920), "Ariette", published 1944 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Verlaine, no. 3, Amsterdam, Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucy Hamilton Paine , "Ariette", published [1909] [ medium voice and piano ], from Six mélodies pour chant et piano, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by Héctor (or Ettore) Panizza (1875 - 1967), "Ariettes oubliées", op. 24 no. 7, published 1899 [ voice and piano ], from Neuf poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 7, Milan, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Poirson , "Ariette", op. 1 no. 8, published 1907 [ medium voice and piano ], from Chansons de poètes, no. 8, Paris, Mathot [sung text not yet checked]
by Charles Quef (1873 - 1931), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Caen, Bonaventure [sung text not yet checked]
by Hendrik de Regt (b. 1950), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", op. 71a (1980), published 1981 [ baritone and piano ], from Trois chansons pour baryton et piano, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
by Pierre-Jacob Robert-Cantabre , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1921 [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, I, no. 4, Pau, Éd. Pierre Jacob Cantabre [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexis Jean Hubert Rostand (1844 - 1919), as Jean Hubert, "Il pleut dans mon cœur", subtitle: "La Pluie", <<1904 [ high voice and piano ], from Les Saisons et les Heures, no. 17, Paris, Éd. Heugel & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Daniel Ruyneman (1886 - 1963), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", published 1914 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 1, Amsterdam, Alsbach [sung text not yet checked]
by Henry Sarly (1884 - ?), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published c1908 [ voice and piano ], Bruxelles, Schott [sung text not yet checked]
by Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 4 (Trois mélodies) no. 2 (1895), published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
by Louis Schopfer (1867 - 1926), as Robert Alger, "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Ricordi (R. 938) [sung text not yet checked]
by Mark Simpson (b. 1988), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", first performed 2019 [ voice and piano ], confirmed with a concert programme booklet [sung text checked 1 time]
by Leone Sinigaglia (1868 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 1 no. 4 (1894) [sung text not yet checked]
by Jeff Smallman (b. 1965), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 2003 [ high voice and piano ], from Tableaux éternels, no. 2, Hensall, Ontario (Canada), Lighthouse Music Publications [sung text not yet checked]
by Carl Smulders (1863 - 1934), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1896, published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Middleburg, A. A. Noske [sung text not yet checked]
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "La pluie", op. 32 (Cinq Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 3, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]
by Roger Guy Steptoe (b. 1953), "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", 2009, published 2009, first performed 2010 [ high voice, piano, viola ], from Three Paul Verlaine Songs, no. 2, Vuarmarens (Switzerland), Édition BIM [sung text not yet checked]
by Aimée Strohl (1865 - 1941), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", [1897] [ voice and piano ], as Rita Strohl [sung text not yet checked]
by Jósef-Zygmunt Szulc (1875 - 1956), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. 5, published 1907 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
by Alexandre Tariot (1867 - 1943), "La pluie", published 1903 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
by George Templeton-Strong (1856 - 1948), "Il pleure", 1931, published 1937 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Trois aquarelles pour chant et piano, no. 2, Genève, Éd. du Siècle Musical [sung text not yet checked]
by Théodore Terestchenko (b. 1888), "La pluie", published [1912] [ voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 6, Paris, Éd. J. Hamelle [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Tricot (b. 1926), "Il pleure dans mon cœur" [ high voice and piano ], from Mathilde, 6 poèmes de P. Verlaine. , no. 4, from Mélodies, recueil 1, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
by Édouard Van Cleef , "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1920 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rouart Lerolle [sung text not yet checked]
by Alice Voisin , "Ariette oubliée", 1923 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Victor Vreuls (1876 - 1944), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", 1902, published 1905 [ voice and orchestra or piano ], from Triptyque, no. 1, Bruxelles, Breitkopf & Härtel, also set in German (Deutsch) [sung text not yet checked]
by Léon Wauters (b. 1888), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1935 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Bosworth et Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Sylvia Wisner , "Ariettes oubliées", 1952 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Lucien Wurmser (1877 - 1967), "Il pleure dans mon cœur", published 1904 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Costallat [sung text not yet checked]
by Riccardo Zandonai (1883 - 1944), "Ariette", published 1913 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
by Werther Zanolli , "La canzone della poggia", published 1931 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Sénart [sung text not yet checked]
by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Ariette", published 1926 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]
by Jacques-Michel Zoubaloff (1876 - 1941), "Ariette", 1926, published 1926 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Grus [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961) , copyright © ; composed by Daron Aric Hagen.
Also set in English, a translation by Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867 - 1900) , no title, appears in Decorations, in After Paul Verlaine, no. 1, first published 1899 ; composed by Grigory Smirnov.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Richard von Schaukal (1874 - 1942) , "Regen", appears in Nachdichtungen: Verlaine-Heredia, in Romances sans Paroles, Berlin: Oesterheld & Co., page 41, first published 1906 ; composed by Joseph Marx.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Stefan Zweig (1881 - 1942) , "Regen" ; composed by Willy Czernik, Artur Immisch, Rudolf Mengelberg, Richard Trunk.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Michel Dimitri Calvocoressi (1877 - 1944) ; composed by Victor Vreuls.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Schilling (1910 - 1967) ; composed by Otto Erich Schilling.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Serge Bortkiewicz (1877 - 1952) , "Es weinet mein Herz" ; composed by Serge Bortkiewicz.
Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Franz Dannehl.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Fyodor L'vovich Sollogub, Graf (1848 - 1890) ; composed by Ivan Ivanovich Kryzhanovsky.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873 - 1924) ; composed by Semyon Viktorovich Panchenko.
Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation (M. A. ) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist ; composed by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov.

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

CAT Catalan (Català) [singable] (Núria Colomer) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "There is weeping in my heart", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Thomas Ang) , "In my heart it weeps", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , "Es weint in meinem Herzen", copyright © 2005, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Stefan George) , no title, appears in Zeitgenössische Dichter, in Frankreich, in Paul Verlaine, in Aus: Lieder ohne Worte, in Vergessene Weisen, no. 3
GER German (Deutsch) (Pierre Mathé) , "Es weint in meinem Herz", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
SPA Spanish (Español) (Elisa Rapado) , copyright © 2020, (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: 16
Word count: 84

There is weeping in my heart

Language: English after the French (Français)

 There is weeping in my heart
 like the rain falling on the town.
 What is this languor
 that pervades my heart?
 
 Oh the patter of the rain
 on the ground and the roofs!
 For a heart growing weary
 oh the song of the rain!
 
 There is weeping without cause
 in this disheartened heart.
 What!  No betrayal?
 There's no reason for this grief.
 
 Truly the worst pain
 is not knowing why,
 without love or hatred,
 my heart feels so much pain.

Authorship:

Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (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 Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3, Sens, Typographie de Maurice L'Hermite, first published 1874

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 81