by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889)
La Nuit, sur le grand mystère
Language: French (Français)
La Nuit, [sur le grand]1 mystère, Entr'ouvre ses écrins bleus : Autant de fleurs sur la terre, Que d'étoiles dans les cieux ! On voit ses ombres dormantes S'éclairer, à tous moments, Autant par les fleurs charmantes Que par les astres charmants. Moi, ma Nuit au sombre voile N'a, pour charme et pour clarté, Qu'une fleur et qu'une étoile : Mon amour et ta beauté !
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View original text (without footnotes)Confirmed with Anthologie des poètes français du XIXème siècle, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1887, page 453.
1 Gouzien: "au brillant"; further changes may exist not shown above.Text Authorship:
- by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), "Éblouissement", appears in Contes cruels, in Conte d'Amour, no. 1 [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 Léon Boëllmann (1862 - 1897), "La nuit ", op. 26 no. 2 (1896), published 1896 [ high voice and piano ], from Conte d’Amour, no. 2, Édition Baudoux [sung text not yet checked]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Nocturne", op. 43 no. 2 (1886), published 1886 [ voice and piano ], Éditions Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Georges Flé , "Éblouissement", published 1898 [ high voice and piano ], from Poésies mises en musique, no. 8, Édition du Mercure de France [sung text not yet checked]
- by Armand Gouzien (1839 - 1892), "La nuit" [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
- by Joseph Ryelandt (1870 - 1965), "Éblouissement", op. 19 (Six mélodies) no. 4 (1897), published 1914 [ medium voice and piano ], Liège, Éd. Veuve Leopold Muraille [sung text not yet checked]
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- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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