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by Alfred Busquet

Les gouttes de pluie
Language: French (Français) 
Un soir nous étions deux:
  Baisers amoureux,
Volez sur la charmille!
La lune était d'argent;
  Son regard changeant
Tantôt pâlit ou brille.

Ah! sur mon front brûlant,
Sur ses yeux, sur ses lèvres,
  Pleurs des cieux,
Tombez silencieux,
Calmez, calmez nos fièvres!

Le dieu d'amour m'entend,
  Et du ciel descend,
La rosée ou la pluie:
Gouttes ou flots versés
  Sur ses yeux baissés;
Ma lèvre les essuie, 
  Empressée!

Qu'il pleuve ainsi, toujours, toujours, encore!
  Doux baisers que j'adore,
  Venez éteindre mes frissons!
Tombez toujours, tombez, gouttes propices,
  De [nos]1 baisers complices.
L'oiseau chantait [dans]2 les buissons!

Mais le ciel, égayé,
  Soudain a ployé
Son manteau monotone,
Nos bras sont délacés,
  Nos regards baissés,
Et tu t'enfuis, mignonne...
Jours passés!

  Larmes des cieux,
Tombez, tombez encore,
  Jusqu'à l'aurore;
Que je [sois]3 heureux!
  Larmes des cieux!

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Rey 

View original text (without footnotes)
1 Reyer: "mes"
2 Reyer: "sous"
3 Reyer: "suis"

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Busquet , "Les gouttes de pluie", subtitle: "Rêverie imitée de l'allemand", appears in Poésies première série, first published 1884 [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 Louis-Étienne-Ernest Rey (1823 - 1909), as Ernest Reyer, "Les gouttes de pluie", 1854, published c1858 [ high voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 36
Word count: 137

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