Voyage | Adieu amour nuage qui fuis

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Voyage

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER GER

[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

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• F. Poulenc

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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"

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 [author's text checked 1 time 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 Rafał Augustyn (b. 1951), "Voyage", 1991, published 1997 [ soprano and piano ], from Cinq calligrammes d'Apollinaire pour soprano et piano, no. 1, Poznan, Brevis [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Voyage", 1947 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Voyage", FP 140 no. 7 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 7, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 16
Word count: 67