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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Le Pauvre Songe
Language: French (Français) 
Peut-être un Soir m’attend
Où je boirai tranquille
En quelque vieille Ville,
Et mourrai plus content :
Puisque je suis patient !

Si mon mal se résigne
Si j’ai jamais quelque or,
Choisirai-je le Nord
Ou le Pays des Vignes ? ...
- Ah ! songer est indigne

Puisque c’est pure perte !
Et si je redeviens
Le voyageur ancien,
Jamais l’auberge verte
Ne peut bien m’être ouverte.

Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Le Pauvre Songe", appears in Vers nouveaux et chansons, in Comédie de la soif, no. 4 [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 Denise Isabelle Roger (1924 - 2005), "Le Pauvre Songe", 1966, copyright © 1979, first performed 1969 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes d'Arthur Rimbaud, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2023-07-26
Line count: 15
Word count: 61

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