Mélodies

by Suzanne Baron Supervielle (1910 - 2004)

1. À la santé

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2. Chanson à boire

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3. Le Papillon  [sung text not yet checked]

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Ce billet doux plié en [deux]1 
cherche une adresse de fleur.

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  • ENG English (Anyi Sharma) , "The Butterfly", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Confirmed with Jules Renard, Histoires naturelles, Paris, Modern-Bibliothèque, 1894, page 75. Note: this is a prose text. Line breaks have been added arbitrarily.

1 Aboulker: "quatre"

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4. L'oiseau

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5. Le lac endormi

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6. Elle s'avance, elle s'éloigne

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Elle s'avance, elle s'éloigne
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7. Pour endormir la belle au bois

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8. Les grenades  [sung text not yet checked]

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Dures grenades entr'ouvertes
Cédant à l'excès de vos grains,
Je crois voir des fronts souverains
Éclatés de leurs découvertes !

Si les soleils par vous subis,
Ô grenades entre-bâillées
Vous ont fait d'orgueil travaillées
Craquer les cloisons de rubis,

Et que si l'or sec de l'écorce
À la demande d'une force
Crève en gemmes rouges de jus,

Cette lumineuse rupture
Fait rêver une âme que j'eus
De sa secrète architecture.

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9. Le Sylphe  [sung text not yet checked]

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Ni vu ni connu
Je suis le parfum
Vivant et défunt
Dans le vent venu !

Ni vu ni connu,
Hasard ou génie ?
À peine venu
La tâche est finie !

Ni lu ni compris ?
Aux meilleurs esprits
Que d'erreurs promises !

Ni vu ni connu,
Le temps d'un sein nu
Entre deux chemises !

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  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Sylph", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

First published in Intentions, no. 1, January 1922.


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Total word count: 132