by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Carte‑Postale Matches original text
Language: French (Français)
L'ombre de la très douce est évoquée ici, Indolente, et jouant un air dolent aussi : Nocturne ou lied mineur qui fait pâmer son âme Dans l'ombre où ses longs doigts font mourir une gamme Au piano qui geint comme une pauvre femme.
Note: this poem is an acrostic on the word "Linda". It was originally written in a postcard to Linda Molina da Silva dated May 19, 1901.
Composition:
- Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Carte-Postale", FP 58 no. 2 (1931) [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1901, appears in Il y a, in Les Dicts d’Amour à Linda, no. 2, first published 1925
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Derek Welton) , "Postcard", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "Postcard", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 42