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

Tourbillon de mouches
Language: French (Français) 
Un cavalier va dans la plaine
La jeune fille pense à lui
Et cette flotte à Mytylène
Le fil de fer est là qui luit

Comme ils cueillaient la rose ardente
Leurs yeux tout à coup ont fleuri
Et quel soleil la bouche errante
À qui la bouche avait souri.

Confirmed with Guillaume Apollinaire, Œuvres poétiques (extraits) Poèmes à Lou, Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 1959, p.500


Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Tourbillon de mouches", appears in Poèmes à Lou [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Tourbillon de mouches", published 1996 [ voice and piano ], Paris : AARC [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2025-03-27
Line count: 8
Word count: 50

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