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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.
About the headline (FAQ)
View original text (without footnotes)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]
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- DUT Dutch (Nederlands) (Marike Lindhout) , copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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- SPA Spanish (Español) (Xavier Rivera) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Word count: 96
In your heart moonlight lies dormant, A gentle moonlight of summer; And [far from]1 the troubles of life, I will [lose]2 myself in your brightness. I will forget past griefs, My love, when you rock My unhappy heart and my thoughts In the loving tranquility of your arms. You will lay my anxious head, Oh! - [some evenings]3 - upon your lap, And you will utter to it a ballad That will seem to speak of us; And from your eyes so full of sadness, From your eyes I will then drink So many kisses and so much tenderness That perhaps at last I will be healed.
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View original text (without footnotes)Translation of title "Chanson triste" = "Sad song"
1 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "to flee from"2 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "drown"
3 Duparc, Saint-Saëns: "sometimes"
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © by Emily Ezust
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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
This text was added to the website: 2015-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 108