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by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874 - 1945)

À une mouette
Language: French (Français) 
Qui donc aura souffert, pauvre mouette prise ton grand essor capté?
Tu tremblais dans mes mains, doucement blanche et grise, toute chaude de liberté.
Esclave, je t'avais achetée au passage à ces mauvais garçons
Et ce geste me plut d'aller jusqu'à la plage te rendre à tes quatre horizons.

Les plumes de ta tête étaient lisses et belles sous mon baiser fervent ;
Puis j'ouvris mes deux mains, tu ouvris tes deux ailes et partis librement dans le vent.
Emporte sans le savoir le baiser du poète au large inapaisé
C'était toute la mer, Ô chère sœur mouette que j'embrassais en ce baiser.

Text Authorship:

  • by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874 - 1945) [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 Jacqueline Fontyn (b. 1930), "À une mouette", 2005 [ contralto or piano, viola or violoncello, and piano ], from Mouettes, no. 4 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2010-08-01
Line count: 8
Word count: 102

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