A poem | He came in/ He sat down

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Laura Prichard

Un Poème

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

Il est entré
Il s'est assis
Il ne regarde pas le pyrogène à cheveux rouges
L'allumette flambe
Il est parti

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Un Poème", written 1917, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [author's text not yet checked 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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Un Poème", FP 131 no. 2 (1946), published 1947 [ baritone and piano ], from Deux Mélodies sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "A poem", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Ingrid Schmithüsen) , "Ein Gedicht", copyright © 2013, (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: 20

A poem

Language: English after the French (Français)

He came in
He sat down
He doesn’t look at the red-haired pyrogène
The match flared
He left

Translator's note on line 3: "pyrogène" : "pyrogenic" is an adjective describing something or someone producing heat or fever

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Un Poème", written 1917, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
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This text was added to the website: 2016-02-09
Line count: 5
Word count: 18