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by Alfred Busquet

Sommeil
Language: French (Français) 
Dors près de moi, douce et blanche colombe,
  Déjà la nuit éteint le jour.
Au blond sommeil ta paupière succombe,
  Et l'oiseau chante [un chant]1 d'amour.

Quand viendra l'heure où voltigent les songes,
  Ne les crois pas, mon bel ange endormi,
Ferme ton coeur à leurs pâles mensonges
  Pour t'éveiller à la voix d'un ami.

La brise dort, et la fleur à l'abeille
  Vient de fermer son corset bleu.
L'onde est tranquille, et la vague sommeille;
  De tout brin d'herbe il s'exhale un aveu.

L'ombre naissant de la nuit embaumée,
  Fait comme un voile à ton sommeil.
Et moi, je rêve en mon âme charmée,
  Au doux baiser qui m'attend au réveil.

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Rey 

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1 omitted by Reyer.

Text Authorship:

  • by Alfred Busquet , "Sommeil", subtitle: "Mélodie 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, "Sommeil", 1858 [ medium voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies, no. 1, Éd. Choudens [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: 16
Word count: 113

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