Le spectre de la rose
The Ghost of the Rose

Soulève ta paupière close
Lift your eyelids closed

Qu?effleure un songe virginal.
That grazed a dream virginal.

Je suis le spectre d?une rose
I am the ghost of a rose

Que tu portais hier au bal.
That you wore yesterday to the ball.

Tu me pris encor emperlée
You me took still adorned

Des pleurs d?argent de l?arrosoir,
From the tears of silver from teh watering can,

Et parmi la fête étoilée
And amid the party starry

Tu me promenas tout le soir.
You me wore all the evening (you wore me all evening). 

Ô toi, qui de ma mort fut cause,
Oh you, of who my death were the cause,

Sans que tu puisses le chasser,
Without that you are able to chase it away,

Toutes les nuits mon spectre rose
All the nights my ghost rose

A ton chevet viendra danser.
To your bedside will come to dance. 

Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclame
But not fear anything, I do not demand

Ni messe ni De Profundis, 
Neither a mass nor a De Profundis,

Ce léger parfum est mon âme
This faint perfume is my soul

Et j?arrive du Paradis.
And I come from Paradise. 

Mon destin fut digne d?envie,
My destiny was worthy of envy,

Et pour avoir un sort si beau
And for having a fate so lovely

Plus d?un aurait donné sa vie.
More than one would have given his life.

Car sur ton sein j?ai mon tombeau,
For one your breast I have my tomb,

Et sur l?albâtre où je repose
And on the alabaster where I lie

Un poète avec un baiser
A poet with a kiss

Écrivit : "Ci-gît une rose
Has written: ?Lies a rose

Que tous les rois vont jalouser".
For whom all the kings may be jealous.?