Je tremble en voyant ton visage

Je tremble en voyant ton visage
Flotter avecque mes désirs,
Tant j'ai de peur que mes soupirs
Ne lui fassent faire naufrage.

De crainte de cette aventure 
Ne commets pas si librement
À cet infidèle élément
Tous les trésors de la Nature.

Veux-tu, par un doux privilège,
Me mettre au-dessus des humains?
Fais-moi boire au creux de tes mains,
Si l'eau n'en dissout point la neige.

by Tristan L'Hermite François (1601-1655)

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) , "Je tremble en voyant ton visage", from Le promenoir des deux amants, no. 3.

ENG English (Douglas Watt-Carter)

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