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by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929)

Le vent roulait les feuilles mortes ;...
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Le vent roulait les feuilles mortes ; mes pensées
Roulaient comme des feuilles mortes, dans la nuit.
Jamais si doucement au ciel noir n'avaient lui
Les mille roses d'or d'où tombent les rosées.

Une danse effrayante, et les feuilles froissées,
Et qui rendaient un son métallique, valsaient,
Semblaient gémir sous les étoiles, et disaient
L'inexprimable horreur des amours trépassés.

Les grands hêtres d'argent que la lune baisait
Étaient des spectres : moi, tout mon sang se glaçait
En voyant mon aimée étrangement sourire.

Comme des fronts de morts nos fronts avaient pâli,
Et, muet, me penchant vers elle, je pus lire 
Ce mot fatal écrit dans ses grands yeux : l'oubli.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Bouchor (1855 - 1929), no title, appears in Les poëmes de l'amour et de la mer, in 2. La mort de l'amour, no. 28, first published 1876 [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]


This text (or a part of it) is used in a work
  • by Ernest Amédée Chausson (1855 - 1899), "La mort de l'amour", op. 19 no. 2 (1887), published 1893, orchestrated 1893 [ high voice and piano or orchestra ], from Poème de l'Amour et de la Mer, no. 2
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2011-02-01
Line count: 14
Word count: 108

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