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by Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887)

Les mares de vos yeux aux joncs de cils
Language: French (Français) 
Les mares de vos yeux aux joncs de cils,
Ô vaillante oisive femme,
Quand donc me renverront-ils
La Lune-levante de ma belle âme ?

Voilà tantôt une heure qu’en langueur
Mon cœur si simple s’abreuve
De vos vilaines rigueurs,
Avec le regard bon d’un terre-neuve.

Ah ! madame, ce n’est vraiment pas bien,
Quand on n’est pas la Joconde,
D’en adopter le maintien
Pour induire en spleens tout bleus le pauv’ monde.

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Œuvres complètes de Jules Laforgue. Volume I. Poésies, Paris, Mercure de France, 1922, page 232.


Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887), no title, written 1885, appears in L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, in 10. Locutions des Pierrots, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier, first published 1886 [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 Albert Febvre-Longeray (1886 - 1942), "Locutions des Pierrots", 1924 [ medium voice and piano ], from Trois Poèmes de Jules Laforgue, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2020-04-15
Line count: 12
Word count: 70

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