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by Rémy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915)

Songe
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Je voudrais t'emporter dans un monde nouveau 
Parmi d'autres maisons et d'autres paysages 
Et là, baisant tes mains, contemplant ton visage, 
T'enseigner un amour délicieux et nouveau, 

Un amour de silence, d'art et de paix profonde: 
Notre vie serait lente et pleine de pensées, 
Puis, par hasard, nos mains un instant rapprochées 
Inclineraient nos coeurs aux caresses profondes, 

Et les jours passeraient, aussi beaux que des songes, 
Dans la demi clarté d'une soirée d'automne, 
Et nous diront tout bas, car le bonheur étonne: 
Les jours d'amour sont doux quand la vie est un songe.

Text Authorship:

  • by Rémy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915), "Songe", appears in Divertissements, in 6. Le vieux coffret, no. 1, Éd. G. Crès, Paris, first published 1912 [author's text not yet checked 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 Anatoly Nikolayevich Aleksandrov (1888 - 1982), "Songe", op. 11 no. 2 (1916) [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Poésies de Remy de Gourmont = Два стихотворения Реми де Гурмона, перевод С. Шервинского (Dva stikhotvorenija Remi de Gurmona, perevod S. Shervinskogo), no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by André Caplet (1879 - 1925), "Songe", 1917, published 1918 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le vieux coffret, no. 1, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Dream", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 94

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