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by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889)

Hymne à Venus
Language: French (Français) 
Ô Vénus, au charmant visage,
Du haut de son trône sauvage
Quand Phoebé colore la plage
Su l'orbe étoilé de la nuit
Les pêcheurs de corail voient
Souvent  ton image,
Qui se baigne en silence
Et puis, comme un nuage, s' évanouit.
C'est l'heure pâle des mystères
Les falaises sont solitaires!
Bercé sur les vagues améres
L'ombre de ton corps radieux.

Text Authorship:

  • by Auguste, Comte de Villiers de L'isle-Adam (1838 - 1889), Éd. N. Scheuring et Cie, first published 1859 [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 Pierre (Onfroy) de Bréville (1861 - 1949), "Hymne à Vénus", 1889, published 1913, first performed 1898 [ vocal duet with piano (or flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and harp) ], Éd. Rouart Lerolle & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Charles Koechlin (1867 - 1950), "Hymne à Venus", op. 68 (Deux mélodies) no. 1 (1918) [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Francesco D'Angelo

This text was added to the website: 2007-05-23
Line count: 12
Word count: 61

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