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by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933)

Mélodie
Language: French (Français) 
Comme un couteau dans un fruit
Amène un glissant ravage,
La mélodie aux doux bruits
Fend le cœur et le partage
Et tendrement le détruit.
— Et la langueur irisée
Des arpèges, des accords,
Descend, tranchante et rusée,
Dans la faiblesse du corps
Et dans l’âme divisée…

Confirmed with Anna de Noailles, Les Forces éternelles, Paris, Arthème Fayard & Cie, éditeurs, éd. revue et corrigée, 1920, page 286.


Text Authorship:

  • by Anna Elizabeth Mathieu, Comtesse de Noailles (1876 - 1933), "Mélodie", written 1920?, appears in Les Forces éternelles, in 3. Poèmes de l'esprit, no. 45, Paris, Éd. Fayard, first published 1920 [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 Edward Lockspeiser (1905 - 1973), "Mélodie", 1926, published 1926 [ voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies, poésies de la Comtesse de Noailles, no. 1, Paris, Éd. Maurice Senart [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-08-18
Line count: 10
Word count: 47

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