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Paysage

Set by Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), "Paysage", 1973?, published 1973 [ baritone, unaccompanied ], London, Novello  [sung text not yet checked]

Note: this setting is made up of several separate texts.


VOICI LA MAISON OÙ NAISSENT LES ÉTOILES ET LES DIVINITÉS

CET ARBRISSEAU QUI SE PRÉPARE À FRUCTIFIER TE RESSEMBLE

UN CIGARE ALLUMÉ QUI FUME

VOUS AMANTS COUCHÉS ENSEMBLE
VOUS SÉPAREZ MES MEMBRES

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, title 1: "Paysage", title 2: "Paysage animé", written 1914, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, no. 3, first published 1918

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Note: the poem appeared in print in the form of four shapes: Maison (house), Arbre (tree), Personnage (figure), Cigare (cigar), as follows:


V
OI
       LA            ?
CI         MAISON 
                                                                         CET
Où    NAISSENT                             ARBRISSEAU
                                                             QUI SE PRÉPARE 
LES                    É                                  À FRUCTIFIER
                                                                              TE
TOI              LES                                             RES
                                                                           SEM
ET LES DIVINITÉS                                  BLE

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C                                                                                                                                u
   O                                                                                E                                        l
       U                                                                         L                                          l
           C                                                                 B                                          a
               H                                                       M                           CIGARE
                   É                    a                         E                          UN 
                      S                                          S
                                   MANTS         N
                                                          E                        
                                       VOUS
                                        VOUS
                                           SÉ
                               PA               MES
                        RE                            MEM
                      R                                     B
                   E                                           R
                Z                                                E
                                                                      S


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]



[nuage]
Adieu amour nuage qui fuis
et n’a pas chu pluie fécondante
refais le voyage de Dante

[poteau télégraphique]
[oiseau]
télégraphe
oiseau qui laisse tomber
ses ailes partout

[train]
où va donc ce train qui meurt au loin
dans les vals et les beaux bois frais 
du tendre été si pâle

[ciel]
la douce nuit lunaire et pleine d’étoiles
c’est ton visage que je ne vois plus

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Voyage", written 1914, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918

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

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Viatge", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Voyage", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Reise", copyright © 2013, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Reise", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Note: the poem transcribed above has a pictorial presentation in print. See Poèmes publiés du vivant d'Apollinaire, 1901-1918 [Sorbonne, external site]

1 Poulenc: "féconde"

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]



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):

  • CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • 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.


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]


Author(s): Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918)
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