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by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor
Translation © by Marike Lindhout

Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  DUT ENG GER GER JPN SPA
Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune,
Un doux clair de lune d'été,
[Et loin de]1 la vie importune,
Je me [viens perdre en]2 ta clarté.

J'oublierai les douleurs passées,
Mon amour, quand tu berceras
Mon triste cœur et mes pensées
Dans le calme aimant de tes bras.

Tu prendras ma tête malade,
Oh ! [certain soir sur]3 tes genoux,
Et lui diras une ballade
Qui semblera parler de nous ;

Et dans tes yeux pleins de tristesse,
Dans tes yeux alors je boirai
Tant de baisers et de tendresses
Que peut-être je guérirai.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

•   H. Duparc •   C. Saint-Saëns 

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Confirmed with L'Illusion, troisième édition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, p. 16.

1 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "Et pour fuir"
2 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "noierai dans"
3 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "quelquefois, sur"

Text Authorship:

  • by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Chanson triste", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, first published 1875 [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 Albert Bertelin (1872 - 1951), "Chanson triste" [ high voice and piano ], from Mélodies, no. 4, Éd. Loret Fils et H. Freytag [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Bordes (1863 - 1909), "Chanson triste", op. 8 no. 1 [ high voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies sur des poèmes de Jean Lahor, no. 1, Éd. Le Bailly, O. Bornemann [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Édouard Desmangles , "Chanson triste", 1939-41 [ medium-high voice and piano ], from Pièces pour chant et piano, no. 4 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933), "Chanson triste", 1868/1869, orchestrated 1912 [ voice and piano or orchestra ] [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Daniel Fleuret (1869 - 1915), "Chanson triste", published 1912 [ high voice and piano ], from L'Illusion, poème en neuf chants de Jean Lahor, no. 1, Lyon, Éd. Janin Frères [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Albert Lebail , "Chanson triste", published [1917] [ high voice and piano ], Choisy-Le-Roi [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Germain Letel , "Chanson triste", published [1921] [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Dans ton cœur dort un clair de lune", published 1902 [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux mélodies, no. 1, Paris, Éd. 'Au Ménestrel' Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Dans ton cœur", <<2011 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921), "Dans ton cœur", 1872, published 1884 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Durand, Schoenewerk & Co. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Johann Heinrich Samuel "Marcel" Sulzberger (1876 - 1941), "Chanson triste", 1911 [ soprano and piano ], Zentralbibliothek Zürich, MS [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , copyright ©
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Nele Gramß) , no title, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • JPN Japanese (日本語) (Naoyuki Okada) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (Xavier Rivera) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 96

In je hart slaapt maanlicht
Language: Dutch (Nederlands)  after the French (Français) 
In je hart slaapt maanlicht,
Een zacht zomermaanlicht,
En om het lastige leven te ontvluchten,
Zal ik me in je schijnsel verdrinken.

Ik zal vergeten de vroegere pijn,
Mijn lief, wanneer je mijn droeve hart
En mijn gedachten wiegt
In de koesterende rust van je armen.

Je zult mijn zieke hoofd
Soms op je schoot nemen,
En zal het een ballade vertellen
Die over ons schijnt te gaan;

En in je ogen vol droefenis,
In je ogen zal ik dan drinken
Zovele kussen en zoveel tederheid
Dat ik zal genezen misschien.

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Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to Dutch (Nederlands) copyright © 2007 by Marike Lindhout, (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 Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Chanson triste", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort, first published 1875
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This text was added to the website: 2007-05-10
Line count: 16
Word count: 91

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