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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Ce soir je m'étais penché sur ton...
Language: French (Français) 
Ce soir je m'étais penché sur ton sommeil.
Tout ton corps dormait chaste sur l'humble lit,
Et j'ai vu, comme un qui s'applique et qui lit,
Ah ! j'ai vu que tout est vain sous le soleil !

Qu'on vive, ô quelle délicate merveille,
Tant notre appareil est une fleur qui plie !
O pensée aboutissant à la folie !
Va, pauvre, dors ! moi, l'effroi pour toi m'éveille.

Ah ! misère de t'aimer, mon frêle amour
Qui vas respirant comme on respire un jour !
Ô regard fermé que la mort fera tel !

Ô bouche qui ris en songe sur ma bouche,
En attendant l'autre rire plus farouche !
Vite, éveille-toi. Dis, l'âme est immortelle ?

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Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Vers pour être calomnié", appears in Jadis et naguère, in Jadis, in Sonnets et autres vers, no. 17 [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 Paul Desrais , "Pour être calomnié", published 1905 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Du Wast [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Finnish (Suomi), a translation by Yrjö Vilhelm Kaijärvi (1896 - 1971) ; composed by Pauliina Isomäki.
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This text was added to the website: 2012-02-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 108

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