From having held your dear hands | From having held your dear hands

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by Jean Bellon (1867 - 1914), as Jean Bénédict

Translation © by Faith J. Cormier

D'avoir tenu vos chères mains

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

D'avoir tenu vos chères mains
Longuement dans les miennes,
Je réspire encor ce matin
Un pénétrant parfum
De verveine

D'avoir tenu longtemps mes yeux
Sous le charme des vôtres,
Je garde en moi de lumineux
Reflets, d'un vert gris bleu,
Presque mauve.

Tous les parfums et tous les cieux
S'échappent de vos mains
Ou resplenissent dans vos yeux:
Approche, je les veux
Moins lointains;

Oh! viens plus près,
pour que demain,
En un rêve amoureux,
Je trouve encor sur mon chemin
Avec tous les parfums
Tous les cieux!

Text Authorship:

by Jean Bellon (1867 - 1914), as Jean Bénédict [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 Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "D'avoir tenu vos chères mains", 1902, published c1902 [ voice and piano ], from Chansons printanières, no. 3, Paris: Rouart, Lerolle & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Faith J. Cormier) , "From having held your dear hands", copyright © 2003, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website: 2004-03-24
Line count: 21
Word count: 88

From having held your dear hands

Language: English after the French (Français)

From having held your dear hands
in mine for so long, 
this morning I still breathe 
a penetrating odor 
of verbena. 

From having held my eyes
under the spell of yours for so long, 
I still hold in my heart 
their green-gray-blue-violet 
luminosity. 

All perfumes and all heavens 
drip from your hands 
or shine in your eyes. 
Come closer. I don't want them
to be so far away. 

Oh, come closer, 
so that tomorrow 
in a loving dream 
I will still find
all these heavens on my path
with all their perfumes!

Text Authorship:

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a text in French (Français) by Jean Bellon (1867 - 1914), as Jean Bénédict
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This text was added to the website: 2004-03-24
Line count: 21
Word count: 92