by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
Que lentement passent heures Comme passe un enterrement Tu pleureras l'heure où tu pleures Qui passera trop vitement Comme passent toutes les heures.
Composition:
- Set to music by Guy Sacre (b. 1948), "Les heures", 1977, from 5 Poèmes d'Apollinaire, no. 4
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1911, appears in Alcools, in À la Santé, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1913
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Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Garrett Medlock) , copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 23