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

Ruines au bord du vieux Rhin
Language: French (Français) 
Ruines au bord du vieux Rhin 
On s’embrasse bien dans votre ombre.
Les mariniers qui voient de loin, 
Nous envoient des baisers sans nombre. 

La nuit arrive tout à coup 
Comme l’amour dans ces ruines.
Du Rhin là-bas sortent le cou,
Des niebelungs et des ondines. 

Ne craignons rien des nains barbus 
Qui dans les vignes se lamentent 
Parce qu’ils n’ont pas assez bu… 
Écoutons les nixes qui chantent.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Le Guetteur mélancolique : poèmes inédits, préface d’André Salmon, frontispice de Picasso (Paris, Gallimard, 1952), section « Rhénanes », p. 50. First appeared in Le Voile de Pourpre, numéro 3, cahier de printemps, mai 1909, série « Poèmes rhénans » (nº 4), p. 182. Daté de Honnef, 1901.


Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Crépuscule", written 1901, appears in Le Guetteur mélancolique, first published 1909 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Crépuscule rhénan", 1947 [ low voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Laura Prichard [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-08-23
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