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]

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: 61