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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Prière
Language: French (Français) 
Quand j'étais un petit enfant
Ma mère ne m'habillait que de bleu et de blanc
Ô Sainte Vierge
M'aimez-vous encore
Moi je sais bien
Que je vous aimerai
Jusqu'à ma mort
Et cependant c'est bien fini
Je ne crois plus au ciel ni à l'enfer
Je ne crois plus je ne crois plus
Le matelot qui fut sauvé
Pour n'avoir jamais oublié
De dire chaque jour un Ave
Me ressemblait me ressemblait

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Prière", written 1900-1917, appears in Le Guetteur mélancolique, in Poèmes divers, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1952 [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 Luigi Cortese (1899 - 1976), "Prière", op. 36 no. 2 (1956), published 1959 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from 5 Poesie di Apollinaire da Le Guetteur Mélancolique, no. 2, Milan, Ricordi [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Gilles Silvestrini (b. 1961), "Prière", 1998 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2016-12-19
Line count: 14
Word count: 72

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