by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929)
Supplique
Language: French (Français)
Pierrot! Le ressort du rire, Entre mes dents je l'ai cassé: Le clair décor s'est effacé Dans un mirage à la Shakespeare. Au mât de mon triste navire Un pavillon noir est hissé: O Pierrot! Le ressort du rire, Entre mes dents je l'ai cassé. Quand me rendras-tu, porte-lyre, Guérisseur de l'esprit blessé, Neige adorable du passé, Face de Lune, blanc messire, O Pierrot! le ressort du rire?
Authorship:
- by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), "Supplique", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Gebet an Pierrot", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Max Kowalski, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Ernest Vietor, Otto Vrieslander.
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Word count: 68