Carry my bed into the roses

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by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895)

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Porte ma couche dans les roses

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

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Porte ma couche dans les roses, 
Dans le rêve emporte mon cœur, 
Puis confondons toutes ces choses,
Que mon rêve, ayant leur odeur,
Prête son aile aux fleurs écloses.

Available sung texts: (what is this?)

• E. Moret

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Confirmed with Les nuits persanes par Armand Renaud, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1870, page 63.

Text Authorship:

by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Mélange", written 1870, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 4. Volupté, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870 [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 Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Griserie de Roses", published 1919 [ high voice and piano ], from Sous le ciel de l'Islam, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Carry my bed into the roses

Language: English after the French (Français)

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Carry my bed into the roses,
Into the dream carry off my heart,
Then let us mingle all these things,
So that my dream, bearing their fragrance,
May lend its wing to the blossoming flowers.

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Translations of titles:
"Griserie de Roses" = "Exaltation of Roses"
"Mélange" = "Mingling"

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a text in French (Français) by Armand Renaud (1836 - 1895), "Mélange", written 1870, appears in Les nuits persanes, in 4. Volupté, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1870
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This text was added to the website: 2026-08-26
Line count: 5
Word count: 35