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by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945)

Si la plage planche, si
Language: French (Français) 
Si la plage planche, si
L’ombre sur l’œil s’use et pleure
Si l’azur est larme, ainsi
Au sel des dents pure affleure

La vierge fumée ou l’air
Que berce en soi puis expire
Vers l’eau debout d’une mer
Assoupie en son empire

Celle qui sans les ouïr
Si la lèvre au vent remue
Se joue à évanouir
Mille mots vains où se mue

Sous l’humide éclair de dents
Le très doux feu du dedans.

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First published in Le Centaure, recueil trimestriel de Littérature et d'Art, 1896, volume 1, page 80, then in "Album de vers anciens 1890-1900" (A. Monnier et Cie, Les Cahiers des Amis des Livres, no. 5, 1920), XI (11)

Text Authorship:

  • by Ambroise-Paul-Touissaint-Jules Valéry (1871 - 1945), "Vue", appears in Album de vers anciens 1890-1900 [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 Raoul Bardac (1881 - 1950), "Si la plage planche", 1901, published 1905 [ voice and piano ], from Cinq Mélodies, no. 2, Éd. E. Demets [sung text not yet checked]
  • by François de La Rochefoucauld (flourished c1950), "Vue", published 1950 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois mélodies de François de La Rochefoucauld, poèmes de Paul Valéry - 2ème recueil, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Auber [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-04-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 74

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