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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 text without footnotesConfirmed 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]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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La nit, en el gran misteri, entreobre els seus escrinys blaus: tantes flors a la terra com estrelles al cel! Hom veu les seves ombres dorments il·luminar-se a tots moments, tant per les flors encisadores com per els astres encisants. Per a mi, la meva nit amb vel ombrívol no té, com encís i com claror res més que una flor i que una estrella: el meu amor i la teva beutat!
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Translations of title(s):
"Éblouissement" = "Enlluernament"
"La nuit" = "La nit"
"Nocturne" = "Nocturn"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2023 by Salvador Pila, (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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- a text in French (Français) by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), "Éblouissement", appears in Contes cruels, in Conte d'Amour, no. 1
This text was added to the website: 2023-03-19
Line count: 12
Word count: 72