Tu t'acharnes sur la beauté. Et quelles femmes ont été Victimes de ta cruauté! Eve, Eurydice, Cléopâtre ; J'en connais encor trois ou quatre.
Deux Mélodies inédites du Bestiaire
Song Cycle by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
1. Le Serpent [sung text checked 1 time]
Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Serpent", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 5, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The serpent", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
2. La colombe [sung text checked 1 time]
Colombe, l'amour et l'esprit Qui engendrâtes Jésus-Christ, Comme vous j'aime une Marie. Qu'avec elle je me marie.
Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La colombe", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 26, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The dove", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Total word count: 41