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by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955)

Le visage penché
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
[Demeure]1 ainsi, penchée sur ton cœur.
Tes paupières sont deux pétales de [clématite bleue,]2
et [ta bouche est une]3 longue framboise.

[Demeure]1 ainsi. Une mèche de tes cheveux
a glissé sur ton front, comme une hirondelle apprivoisée
se poserait sur un coffret d’ivoire,
et je ne sais si ce poudroiement vermeil est ta joue.

La clématite s’est repliée :
pourquoi m’as-tu regardé ?
L’hirondelle s’est envolée :
pourquoi as-tu refoulé ta mèche ?
La framboise s’est déchirée :
pourquoi m’as-tu souris ?

Available sung texts:   ← What is this?

•   L. Aubert 

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Confirmed with Franz Toussaint, Le jardin des caresses, Paris: L'édition d'art H. Piazza, 1921, p. 108

1 Aubert: "Reste"
2 Aubert: "clématite/ Que l’été aurait pâlies,"
3 Aubert: "je ne vois de tes lèvres qu’une"

Text Authorship:

  • by Franz Toussaint (1879 - 1955), "Le visage penché", appears in Le jardin des caresses, no. 111, Paris, Éd. H. Piazza, first published 1911 [author's text checked 2 times against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Louis Aubert (1877 - 1968), "Le visage penché", 1917, published 1917 [ medium voice and piano or orchestra ], from Six poèmes arabes, no. 3, Paris, Édition Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "The Downcast Face", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor] , Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2022-05-02
Line count: 13
Word count: 80

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