by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
La Mort ô Vie attend son tour
Language: French (Français)
Our translations: ENG
La Mort ô Vie attend son tour Où fut la ville sont les Cippes La Haine crie où fut l’Amour L’iris est l’ombre des tulipes Comme la Nuit après le Jour.
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Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title [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 Vincent Bouchot (b. 1966), "La Mort ô Vie attend son tour", 2013 [ voice and piano ], from Fleurs d'Apollinaire : 6 mélodies sur des poèmes sur des poèmes d'Apollinaire, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Comme la nuit après le jour", 1953, published 1991 [ voice and piano ], Éd. de l'AARC (Association des Amis de Robert Caby) [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website: 2016-03-16
Line count: 5
Word count: 31