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Deux Mélodies

Song Cycle by Jacques Brillouin (1892 - 1971)

1. Il pleut  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Il pleut des voix de femmes comme si elles
étaient mortes même dans le souvenir
c'est vous aussi qu'il pleut merveilleuses
rencontres de ma vie ô gouttelettes
et ces nuages cabrés se prennent à hennir
tout un univers de villes auriculaires
écoute s'il pleut tandis que le regret et
le dédain pleurent une ancienne musique
écoute tomber les liens qui te retiennent
en haut et en bas

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Il pleut", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, first published 1916

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

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "It rains", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Es regnet", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Note: the poem appeared in print in the form of five downward slanting streams. See Poèmes publiés du vivant d'Apollinaire, 1901-1918 [Sorbonne, external site]. The words above have been treated as prose with arbitrary line-breaks.

First published in SIC, numéro 12, décembre 1916, and then in 1918 in Calligrammes, p. 62.


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2. Je voudrais que mon âme

Language: French (Français) 
Je voudrais que mon âme fût un parterre de fleurs
 . . . . . . . . . .

— The rest of this text is not
currently in the database but will be
added as soon as we obtain it. —

Text Authorship:

  • by Georges Audibert (1885 - 1915), appears in Poèmes, Éd. Georges Crès, first published 1918

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Total word count: 67
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