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by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935)

Ô nuit, ô douce nuit d'été qui viens à...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Ô nuit, ô douce nuit d'été qui viens à nous
Parmi les foins coupés et sous la lune rose, 
Tu dis aux amoureux de se mettre à genoux 
Et sur leur [front brûlant]1 un souffle frais se pose !

Ô nuit, ô douce nuit d'été qui fais fleurir 
Les fleurs dans les gazons et les fleurs sur les branches,
Tu dis aux tendres cœurs des femmes de s'ouvrir
Et sous les blonds tilleuls errent [des]2 formes blanches !

Ô nuit, ô douce nuit d'été qui sur les mers 
Alanguis le sanglot des houles convulsées,
Tu dis aux isolés de n'être [pas]3 amers 
Et la paix de ton ciel descend dans leurs pensées.

Ô nuit, ô douce nuit d'été qui parles bas,
Tes pieds se font légers et ta voix endormante,
Pour que les pauvres morts ne se réveillent pas,
Eux qui peuvent plus aimer, ô nuit aimante !

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   G. Corbin •   C. Widor 

C. Widor sets stanzas 1-2, 4
S. Lange sets stanzas 1-2, 4

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1 Corbin: "fronts brûlants"
2 Widor: "les"
3 Corbin: "plus"

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Bourget (1852 - 1935), "Nuit d'été", written 1882, appears in Les Aveux, in Dilettantisme, in En voyage, no. 11, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1882 [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-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857 - 1934), "Nuit d'été", copyright © 1903 [ high voice and piano ], from Huit mélodies de jeunesse (sur des poèmes de Pierre de Ronsard, C. Hugues, Jean Richepin, Paul Bourget, Paul-Armand Silvestre, R. Rousseil, Théophile Gautier, no. 4, Éditions Choudens [sung text not yet checked]
  • by René Chansarel (1864 - 1945), "Nuit d'été", published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Douze poëmes chantés, no. 12, Éd. E. Demets (Max Eschig) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Germaine Caroline Corbin (1876 - 1913), "Nuit d'été", published 1910 [ voice and piano ], from Six Mélodies, no. 6, Paris, L. Grus & Cie. [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Lucien Hillemacher (1860 - 1909) and by Paul Hillemacher (1852 - 1933), "Nuit d'Été", published 1904 [ vocal duet for soprano and contralto with piano ], from 10 Mélodies pour piano et chant, no. 10, Paris, Éd. A. Joanin & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Georges Adolphe Hüe (1858 - 1948), "Nuit d'été", published 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], Édition Alphonse Leduc [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Samuel de Lange (1840 - 1911), "Nuit d'été", op. 72 no. 2, op. 59 no. 2, published c1897, stanzas 1-2,4 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux Poésies de Paul Bourget, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Nuit d’été", op. 341 (Vier Lieder nach Paul Bourget) no. 2 (2022) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Nuit d'été", op. 362 no. 3 (2024) [ SSAATTBB chorus ], from Trois Nocturnes für achtstimmigen Chor (SSAATTBB), no. 3 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Charles Marie Jean Albert Widor (1844 - 1937), "La nuit", stanzas 1-2,4 [ voice and piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Peter Low [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-12-16
Line count: 16
Word count: 148

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