Il pleure dans mon coeur

Il pleure dans mon coeur (FR) It Weeps in My Heart. Debussy's setting (1887, 1903, Ariettes oubliées, #2) for voice and piano of the third poem from the »Ariettes oubliées« section of Romances sans paroles (1874) by Verlaine. The poem was written in the autumn of 1872 during Verlaine's »escape« to England with Rimbaud. The poem is preceded by an epigram from Rimbaud: »Il pleut doucement sur la ville« (It rains softly upon the city), which Debussy places at the head of the song. The line comes…