Come my sweet love! | The beautiful days will finally return

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by Armand Lafrique (1858 - 1911)

Translation © by Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn

Viens! mon bien‑aimé

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Les b'eaux jours vont enfin renaître,
Le voici, l'avril embaumé!
Un frisson d'amour me pénètre,
Viens! mon bien-aimé!

Ils ont fui, les longs soirs moroses,
Déjà le jardin parfumé
Se remplit d'oiseaux et de roses:
Viens! mon bien-aimé!

Soleil, de ta brûlante ivresse,
J'ai senti mon coeur enflammé,
Plus enivrante est ta caresse,
Viens! mon bien-aimé!

Tout se tait, de millions d'étoiles
Le ciel profond est parsemé,
Quand sur nous la nuit met ses voiles:
Viens! mon bien-aimé!

Text Authorship:

by Armand Lafrique (1858 - 1911) [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 Cécile Chaminade (1857 - 1944), "Viens! mon bien-aimé", 1892, published 1895 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch & Costallat [sung text checked 1 time]

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Manuel Capdevila i Font) , "Vine, estimat meu!", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Ann Marie Wilcox-Daehn) , "Come my sweet love!", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 78

Come my sweet love!

Language: English after the French (Français)

The beautiful days will finally return
And finally April is with us!
A frisson of love passes through me,
Come my sweet love!

Gone are the long, sad evenings,
The garden is perfumed
It is filling up with birds and roses.
Come my sweet love!

The sun flames intensely.
It burns in my heart,
Your caress is passionate
Come my sweet love

All is silent, the millions of stars,
Are scattered in the distant sky
When the night casts her veil:
Come, my sweet love!

Text Authorship:

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a text in French (Français) by Armand Lafrique (1858 - 1911)
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This text was added to the website: 2013-01-26
Line count: 16
Word count: 85