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by Charles Cros (1842 - 1888)

Sonnet
Language: French (Français) 
J’ai bâti dans ma fantaisie
Un théâtre aux décors divers:
- Magiques palais, grands bois verts 
Pour y jouer ma poésie.

Un peu trop au hasard choisie,
La jeune première à l’envers
Récite quelquefois mes vers.
Faute de mieux je m’extasie.

Et je déclame avec tant d’art
Qu’on me croirait pris à son fard,
Au fard que je lui mets moi-même.

Non. Sous le faux air virginal
Je vois l’être inepte et vénal,
Mais c’est le rôle seul que j’aime.

Text Authorship:

  • by Charles Cros (1842 - 1888), "Sonnet", appears in Le Coffret de Santal, in Vingt sonnets, no. 13, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1873 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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

  • by Pierre Wissmer (1915 - 1992), "Sonnet", 1953, published 2014 [baritone or mezzo-soprano and piano], from Quatre Poèmes de Charles Cros pour voix moyenne et piano, no. 3, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [
     text not verified 
    ]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2015-10-03
Line count: 14
Word count: 79

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