by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Les Cigognes
Language: French (Français)
Les cigognes mélancoliques, Blanchâtres sur l’horizon noir, Pour scander les rythmes du soir, Font claquer leurs becs faméliques. Elles ont vu les feux obliques D’un grand soleil de désespoir, Les cigognes mélancoliques, Blanchâtres sur l’horizon noir. Une mare aux yeux métalliques Renverse, en son vague miroir, — Où du jour qui vient de déchoir Luisent les dernières reliques, — Les cigognes mélancoliques.
Text Authorship:
- by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Les Cigognes", written 1884, appears in Pierrot lunaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Abend", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Max Kowalski, Arthur Johannes Scholz, Otto Vrieslander.
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