Nuit d`étoiles Night of Stars or Starry night

 Nuit d'étoiles
Poem by Théodore de Banville
Song composed 1876 by
by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Night of Stars
or Starry night
© translated by Christopher Goldsack
(with slight changes by Ms. Perona)
Nuit d'étoiles,
Sous tes voiles,
Sous ta brise et tes parfums,
Triste lyre
Qui soupire,
Je rêve aux amours défunts.
Night of stars,
beneath your veils,
beneath your breeze and your perfumes,
sad lyre
that sighs,
I dream of bygone loves.
La sereine mélancolie
Vient éclore au fond de mon cœur,
Et j'entends l'âme de ma mie
Tressaillir dans le bois rêveur.
Serene melancholy
comes to bloom in the depths of my heart,
and I hear the soul of my beloved
quiver in the dreaming wood.
Nuit d'étoiles,
Sous tes voiles,
Sous ta brise et tes parfums,
Triste lyre
Qui soupire,
Je rêve aux amours défunts.
Night of stars,
beneath your veils,
beneath your breeze and your perfumes,
sad lyre
that sighs,
I dream of bygone loves.
Je revois à notre fontaine
Tes regards bleus comme les cieux;
Cette rose, c'est ton haleine,
Et ces étoiles sont tes yeux.
I see again at our fountain
your eyes, blue as the heavens;
this rose is your breath,
and these stars are your eyes.
Nuit d'étoiles,
Sous tes voiles,
Sous ta brise et tes parfums,
Triste lyre
Qui soupire,
Je rêve aux amours défunts.
Night of stars,
beneath your veils,
beneath your breeze and your perfumes,
sad lyre
that sighs,
I dream of bygone loves.
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