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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Translation © by Peter Low
Avant que tu ne t'en ailles
Language: French (Français)
Avant que tu ne t'en ailles, Pâle étoile du matin -- Mille cailles Chantent, chantent dans le thym. -- Tourne devers le poète Dont les yeux sont pleins d'amour ; -- L'alouette Monte au ciel avec le jour. -- Tourne ton regard que noie L'aurore dans son azur ; -- Quelle joie Parmi les champs de blé mûr! -- [Puis]1 fais luire ma pensée Là-bas -- bien loin, oh, bien loin ! -- La rosée Gaîment brille sur le foin. -- Dans le doux rêve où s'agite Ma [mie]2 endormie encor... -- Vite, vite, Car voici le soleil d'or. --
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Fauré: "Et"
2 Fauré: "vie"
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 5, first published 1870 [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 Madeleine-M.-L. Boutron , "Chanson 11", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1919, published 1932 [ voice and piano ], London, Boosey & Hawkes [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", op. 61 no. 6, published 1892-3 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 6, Paris, Hamelle [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Rodolphe-Adolphe-Joseph Herrmann (1875 - 1964), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1938 [ voice and piano ], from Vingt mélodies, no. 13, Paris, Lemoine [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lucien Jean-Baptiste (b. 1934), "Étoile du matin", published 1967 [ vocal trio ], from Verlaine, no. 1, Paris, Presses de l'Île de France [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hans Jelmoli (1877 - 1936), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles pâle étoile" [ soprano and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Raoul Koczalski (1884 - 1948), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", op. 69 no. 9 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Lou Koster (1889 - 1973), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1935?, published [1955] [ medium voice and piano ], from 5 Mélodies [later 6 mélodies], no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Eugène-Émile Lacroix , "Pâle étoile du matin", published 1894 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Gounon-Ghidoué [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles-Hilaire Laurent (1877 - 1941), "Aubade", published 1909 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Siéver [sung text not yet checked]
- by Guy de Rougelot de Lioncourt (1885 - 1961), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1911 [ high voice and piano ], from Six mélodies, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Mutuelle [sung text not yet checked]
- by Aristide-Gilbert Martz, dit Gil d'Azil (1879 - 1942), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1943 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Klaus Miehling (b. 1963), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles ", op. 57 no. 6 (1995), published 2001 [ SATT chorus ], from Sieben Chansons zu vier Stimmen nach Texten von Paul Verlaine, no. 6, Goldbach [sung text not yet checked]
- by Jeanne Minsmer (1887 - 1957), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Eschig [sung text not yet checked]
- by Hyppolyte Mirande (b. 1862), "Chanson d'aurore", published 1901 [ voice and piano ], from Quinze poèmes mis en musique, no. 8, Lyon [sung text not yet checked]
- by René Mottart , "Pâle étoile du matin", [1898] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ernest Willem Mulder (1898 - 1959), "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles", 1936, published 1936 [ voice and piano ], from La bonne chanson, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]
- by Max Rongier , "Avant que tu ne t'en ailles" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859 - 1922), "Étoile du matin ", op. 31 (Sept Mélodies pour Chant et Piano) no. 7, published 1898 [ voice and piano ], Leipzig, Belaieff [sung text not yet checked]
- by Édith Sutter , "La bonne chanson", published 1949 [ voice and piano ], Paris, E. Sutter [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "Before you vanish", copyright © 2000, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Didier Pelat
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 87
Before you vanish
Language: English after the French (Français)
Before you vanish,
pale morning star...
(A thousand quails
are singing in the thyme!)
turn towards the poet,
whose eyes are full of love...
(The lark
is rising to the sky with the daybreak!)
turn your gaze which the dawn
is drowning in its blueness...
(What joy
among the fields of ripe corn!)
and make my thoughts shine
there, far away, far away...
(The dew
is gleaming brightly on the hay!)
into the sweet dream where my darling
while still asleep is stirring...
(Quickly, quickly,
for here is the golden sun!)
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, appears in La bonne chanson, no. 5, first published 1870
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 91