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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Angoisse
Language: French (Français) 
Je ne viens pas ce soir vaincre ton corps, ô bête
En qui vont les péchés d'un peuple, ni creuser
Dans tes cheveux impurs une triste tempête
Sous l'incurable ennui que verse mon baiser :

Je demande à ton lit le lourd sommeil sans songes
Planant sous les rideaux inconnus du remords,
Et que tu peux goûter après tes noirs mensonges,
Toi qui sur le néant en sais plus que les morts.

Car le Vice, rongeant ma native noblesse
M'a comme toi marqué de sa stérilité,
Mais tandis que ton sein de pierre est habité

Par un coeur que la dent d'aucun crime ne blesse,
Je fuis, pâle, défait, hanté par mon linceul,
Ayant peur de mourir lorsque je couche seul.

First published in Le Parnasse contemporain, May 12, 1866.


Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), "Angoisse" [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 George Beach (c1893 - 1951), "Angoisse", published 1925 [ voice and piano ], from Poèmes Lyriques, no. 1, Paris, M. Senart (Salabert) [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • GER German (Deutsch) (Richard von Schaukal) , "Angst"


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2014-05-29
Line count: 14
Word count: 120

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