by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard
Rôdeuse au front de verre
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Rôdeuse au front de verre Son coeur s'inscrit dans une étoile noire Ses yeux montrent sa tête Ses yeux [sont]1 la fraîcheur de l'été La chaleur de l'hiver Ses yeux s'ajourent rient très fort Ses yeux joueurs gagnent leur part de clarté.
F. Poulenc sets lines 1-7, 1
Confirmed with Paul Éluard, Œuvres complètes, Vol. 1, Paris: Gallimard, 1968, Page 294.
1 Poulenc: "ont"Text Authorship:
- by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Rôdeuse au front de verre", appears in La vie immédiate, in L'univers-solitude, no. 14, appears in À toute épreuve , in L'univers-solitude, no. 9, first published 1932 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Rôdeuse au front de verre", FP 77 no. 4 (1935), published 1935, lines 1-7,1 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Paul Éluard, no. 4, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Peter Low) , "She prowls with a brow of glass", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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