Aiguamolls de Valònia | Moltes tristeses pleneres

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

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Fagnes de Wallonie

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG

Tant de tristesses plénières
Prirent mon cœur aux fagnes désolées
Quand las j'ai reposé dans les sapinières
Le poids des kilomètres pendant que râlait
le vent d'ouest.

J'avais quitté le joli bois
Les écureuils y sont restés
Ma pipe essayait de faire des nuages
        Au ciel
Qui restait pur obstinément.

Je n'ai confié aucun secret sinon une chanson énigmatique
Aux tourbières humides

Les bruyères fleurant le miel
Attiraient les abeilles
Et mes pieds endoloris
Foulaient les myrtilles et les airelles
Tendrement mariée
     Nord
     Nord
La vie s'y tord
En arbres forts
      Et tors.
La vie y mord
      La mort
À belles dents
 Quand bruit le vent

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Fagnes de Wallonie", written 1915, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Fagnes de Wallonie", FP 107 no. 3 (1940), published 1941 [ medium voice and piano ], from Banalités, no. 3, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Aiguamolls de Valònia", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Peter Low) , "Walloon moorlands", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 26
Word count: 106

Aiguamolls de Valònia

Language: Catalan (Català) after the French (Français)

Moltes tristeses pleneres
copsaren el meu cor als aiguamolls desolats
quan, cansat, vaig descarregar als avetars
el pes dels quilòmetres mentre
el vent de ponent bramulava.

Havia deixat el bonic bosc
els esquirols s'hi van quedar
la meva pipa intentava fer núvols
       al cel
que tossudament es mantenia clar.

No vaig confiar cap secret, tret d'una cançó enigmàtica,
a les torberes humides

Els bruguerars flairant la mel
atreien les abelles
i els meus peus adolorits
trepitjaven els nabius i els gerds
tendrament aparellats
       nord
       nord
la vida es cargola
en arbres forts
       i retorçats.
La vida hi mossega
       la mort
voraçment
quan udola el vent

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Fagnes de Wallonie", written 1915, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-22
Line count: 26
Word count: 105