Sérénade florentine | Étoile, dont la clarté luit

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor

Sérénade florentine

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI DUT ENG FIN

Étoile, dont la [clarté]¹ luit
Comme un diamant dans la nuit,
Regarde vers ma bien-aimée
Dont la paupière s'est fermée,
Et fais descendre sur ses yeux
La bénédiction des cieux.

Elle s'endort : par la fenêtre
En sa chambre heureuse pénètre ;
Sur sa blancheur, comme un baiser,
Viens jusqu'à l'aube te poser,
Et que sa pensée alors rêve
D'un astre d'amour qui se lève.

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• H. Duparc

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Confirmed with L'Illusion, Troisième édition, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1893, p. 11.

¹ Duparc: "beauté"

Text Authorship:

by Henri Cazalis (1840 - 1909), as Jean Lahor, "Sérénade florentine", appears in L'Illusion, in 1. Chants de l'Amour et de la Mort [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 Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933), "Sérénade florentine", 1877-1880, published 1894 [ voice and piano or string quartet ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Alfred André Simon Kullmann (1875 - 1963), "Sérénade florentine", <<1917 [ medium voice and piano ], from Sept mélodies - 1ère série, no. 4, Paris, Éd. L. Grus & Cie [sung text not yet checked]
by Ernest Moret (1871 - 1949), "Sérénade florentine", published 1896 [ medium voice and piano ], Paris, Heugel [sung text not yet checked]
by George F. Skipworth , "Serenade Florentine", 2018 [ voice and piano ], from Trois Chansons, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 63