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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

Les Yeux morts
Language: French (Français) 
De ses grands yeux chastes et fous
Il ne reste pas un vestige :
Ces yeux qui donnaient le vertige
Sont allés où nous irons tous.

En vain, ils étaient frais et doux
Comme deux bluets sur leur tige ;
De ses grands yeux chastes et fous
Il ne reste pas un vestige.

Quelquefois, par les minuits roux
Pleins de mystère et de prestige,
La morte autour de moi voltige,
Mais je ne vois plus que les trous
De ses grands yeux chastes et fous !

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Les Névroses, Paris, Fasquelle, 1917, page 331.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Les Yeux morts", appears in Les névroses, in 4. Les Spectres [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 Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Les Yeux morts" [ voice and piano ], from Dix mélodies - Paroles et musique de Maurice Rollinat, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 83

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