L'Heure Exquise (Reynaldo Hahn)
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CPDL #17678: 
- Contributor: scanner-stacey-seronick@archive.org (added 2008-07-22). Score information: Letter, 20 pages, 495 kbytes Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: File Sizes: PDF: 495 KB. - Edition in A Flat Sharp Minor.
General Information
Title: JL’Heure Exquise
Composer: Reynaldo Hahn
Lyricist: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)
Number of voices: 1v Voicing: Soprano Solo
Genre: Secular, Art song
Language: French
Instruments: Piano
Published: circa 1917
Description:
External websites:
- Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song.
- Internet Archive entry for the song.
- Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
Original text and translations
English text
- Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
- I have watched all night, and now my eyes are heavy with sleep;
- I fear lest I lose you when I am sleeping.
- Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
- I start up and stretch my hands to touch you.
- I ask myself, “Is it a dream?”
- Could I but entangle your feet with my heart,
- And hold them fast to my breast!
- Do not go, my love, without asking my leave.
- Lyrics: Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941).