by Paul Jean Toulet (1867 - 1920)
Plus oultre
Language: French (Français)
Au mois d'aimer, au mois de Mai,
Quand l'on va cherchant sous les branches
Le bien-aimé,
Son jupon, tendu sur les hanches,
Me fait songer à l'aile blanche
Du voilier :
Mers qui battez au pied des mornes
Et dont un double Pilier
Dressa les bornes.
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Confirmed with Robert de La Vaissière, Anthologie poétique du XXe siècle, tome second, Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès et Cie , 1923, Page 178.
Text Authorship:
- by Paul Jean Toulet (1867 - 1920), "Plus oultre", written 1913, appears in Les Contrerimes, in Chansons, in 1. Romances sans musique, no. 3, Paris, Éd. Le Divan, first published 1921 [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 Maurice Jaubert (1900 - 1940), "Plus oultre", 1923-1924, published 1925 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Romances, no. 3, Éd. Jobert [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ludwig-Wolfgang Simoni , "Plus oultre", 1944 [ mezzo-soprano and strings ], from Quatre Contrerimes de P.J. Toulet, no. 3, Éd. du Chant du Monde [sung text not yet checked]
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