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Trois Romances pour voix et piano

by Éric Geneste (b. 1958)

1. Le ciel est par dessus le toit  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Le ciel est, par-dessus le toit,
  Si bleu, si calme !
Un arbre, par-dessus le toit,
  Berce sa palme.

La cloche, dans le ciel qu'on voit,
  Doucement tinte.
Un oiseau sur l'arbre qu'on voit
  Chante sa plainte.

Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, la vie est là
  Simple et tranquille.
Cette paisible rumeur-là
  Vient de la ville.

Qu'as-tu fait, ô toi que voilà
  Pleurant sans cesse,
Dis, qu'as-tu fait, toi que voilà,
  De ta jeunesse ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), no title, written 1880, appears in Sagesse, in Sagesse III, no. 6, Paris, Société générale de Librairie Catholique, first published 1881

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "監禁", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • CZE Czech (Čeština) (Jaroslav Vrchlický) , "Píseň"
  • ENG English (Emily Ezust) , no title, copyright © 2016
  • ENG English (Ernest Christopher Dowson) , no title, appears in Decorations, in After Paul Verlaine, no. 4
  • ENG English (Amy Pfrimmer) , copyright © 2021, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Il cielo, lassù oltre il tetto", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • SPA Spanish (Español) (José Miguel Llata) , "Desde la prisión", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

2. Le Pont Mirabeau  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: French (Français) 
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
  Et nos amours
 Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine.
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
  Tandis que sous
 Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse
  Vienne la nuite sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
  L'amour s'en va
 Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Passent les jours et passent les semaines
  Ni temps passé
 Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
  Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
  Les jours s'en vont je demeure

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le pont Mirabeau", written 1912, appears in Alcools, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1912

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) [singable] (Dr Huaixing Wang) , copyright © 2024, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Peter Low) , copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "A Mirabeau híd", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Mirabeau hídja", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • HUN Hungarian (Magyar) (Tamás Rédey) , "Mirabeau híd", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

First published in the revue Les Soirées de Paris, no. 1, February 1912, and then in Alcools in 1913.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

3. La Grand‑mère

Language: French (Français) 
Dansez fillettes fillettes du village
 . . . . . . . . . .

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

Text Authorship:

  • by Sophie de Bazancourt, Countess d'Arbouville (1810 - 1850), "La Grand-Mère", appears in Poésies et nouvelles, first published 1840

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