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

Orphée
 (Sung text for setting by L. Durey)
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Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Regardez cette troupe infecte 
Aux mille pattes, aux cent yeux : 
Rotifères, cirons, insectes 
Et microbes plus merveilleux 
Que les sept merveilles du monde 
Et le palais de Rosemonde!

First published in the revue La Phalange, no. 24, June 15, 1908 as number 10 of "La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain" (a collection of 18 poems), and later in Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (1911).

Composition:

    Set to music by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Orphée", op. 17a no. 13 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 13

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Orphée", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 13, first published 1908

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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 28

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