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by Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (1847 - 1903)

L'heure de pourpre
Language: French (Français) 
C'est l'heure ! l'heure,
Où le soleil mourant
Roule vers sa rouge demeure.
C'est l'heure ! l'heure
Du baiser fauve et torturant !

Ecoute ! Ecoute,
Blottie entre mes bras,
Mon cœur qui saigne goutte à goutte...
Ecoute ! Ecoute !
Si tu me trahis, tu mourras !

Oh ! pleure ! pleure !
Si jamais en passant, 
Même en rêve, un désir t'effleure !
Pleure, pleure !
Car la neige boira ton sang !

C'est l'heure ! l'heure
Où le soleil mourant
Roule vers sa rouge demeure,
C'est l'heure ! l'heure
Où l'on s'aime en se torturant !

Text Authorship:

  • by Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (1847 - 1903)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Augusta Mary Anne Holmès (1847 - 1903), "L'heure de pourpre", published 1900 [ voice and piano ], from Les heures, no. 3, Paris : Heugel & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Johann Winkler

This text was added to the website: 2020-06-29
Line count: 20
Word count: 83

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