Antique | Gracieux fils de Pan! Autour de ton front couronné

Antique

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CHI ENG JPN SPA

Gracieux fils de Pan! Autour de ton front couronné
de  fleurettes et de baies,  tes yeux,  des boules
précieuses,  remuent.  Tachées de lies brunes, tes
joues se creusent.  Tes crocs luisent. Ta poitrine
ressemble à une cithare,  des tintements circulent
dans tes bras blonds.  Ton cœur bat dans ce ventre
où dort  le double sexe.  Promène-toi,  la nuit en
mouvant  doucement  cette  cuisse,  cette  seconde
cuisse et cette jambe de gauche.

Confirmed with Monographie imprimée (Paris), 1886

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), "Antique", appears in Les Illuminations [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 Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892 - 1971), "Antique", 1940 [ soprano and orchestra ], from Les Illuminations, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

by (Edward) Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976), "Antique", op. 18 no. 3 (1939), published 1940 [ high voice and strings ], from Les Illuminations, no. 3
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