Il pleure dans mon coeur

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon coeur?

O bruit doux de la pluie,
Par terre et sur les toits!
Pour un coeur qui s'ennuie,
O le [chant]1 de la pluie! 

Il pleure sans raison
Dans [ce]2 coeur qui s'écoeure.
Quoi! nulle trahison?
[Ce]3 deuil est sans raison.

C'est bien la pire peine,
De ne savoir pourquoi,
Sans amour et sans haine,
Mon coeur a tant de peine.

by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", from Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3

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

by Karl Baraquin , "Il pleure dans mon coeur"
by John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", from Four Poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1.
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", 1888, from Ariettes Oubliées, no. 2.
by V. Delfolie , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", published 1943.
by Frederick Delius (1862-1934) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", 1895, from Songs to poems by Paul Verlaine, no. 1.
by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) , "Spleen", op. 51 no. 3 (1888), published 1888.
by P. Fievet , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", published 1922.
by M. Gaveau , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", published 1927.
by Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 22 no. 4.
by Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 9 no. 3 (1941), from Cinq Mélodies sur des Poèmes de Paul Verlaine, no. 3, note: published in Romania as Cinci Lieduri pe Versuri de Verlaine.
by Leevi Antti Madetoja (1887-1947) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", 1916, first performed 1916.
by S. Marinier , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", published 1927.
by Hendrik de Regt , "Il pleut doucement sur la ville", op. 71a (1980).
by Florent Schmitt (1870-1958) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 4 (Trois mélodies) no. 2 (1895). [voice and piano]
by Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 1 no. 4 (1894).
by Nikolay Aleksandrovich Sokolov (1859-1922) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 32 no. 3.
by Jósef Szulc (1875-1956) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", op. 83 (Dix mélodies sur des poésies de Verlaine) no. ?

by Joseph Marx (1882-1964) , "Regen", 1910. [medium voice, piano]

by Daron Aric Hagen (1961-) , "It weeps in my heart", 1983-99, first performed 1999 [voice and piano], from Heart of the Stranger, no. 3.

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GER German (Bertram Kottmann)
ENG English (Thomas Ang)
ITA Italian (Amici Musica di Padova)

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There is weeping in my heart

 There is weeping in my heart
 like the rain falling on the town.
 What is this languor
 that pervades my heart?
 
 Oh the patter of the rain
 on the ground and the roofs!
 For a heart growing weary
 oh the song of the rain!
 
 There is weeping without cause
 in this disheartened heart.
 What!  No betrayal?
 There's no reason for this grief.
 
 Truly the worst pain
 is not knowing why,
 without love or hatred,
 my heart feels so much pain.

Translation from French to English copyright © 2000 by Peter Low, Peter.Low (AT) canterbury.ac.nz, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. Please contact the copyright-holder when requesting permission to reprint.

a text in French by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) , "Il pleure dans mon coeur", from Romances sans paroles, in Ariettes oubliées, no. 3 ITA GER

Text added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.