by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Une herbe pauvre
Sauvage
Apparut dans la neige
C'était la santé
Ma bouche fut émerveillée
Du goût d'air pur qu'elle avait
Elle était fanée.

Composition:

    Set to music by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Une herbe pauvre", FP 86 no. 6 (1936), published 1937 [ high voice and piano ], from Tel jour Telle nuit, no. 6, Éd. Durand

Text Authorship:

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

  • ENG English (Grant Hicks) , "Meager grass", copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Grant Hicks [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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