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by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)

Le cœur volé
Language: French (Français) 
Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe,
Mon cœur couvert de caporal :
Ils y lancent des jets de soupe,
Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe :
Sous les quolibets de la troupe
Qui pousse un rire général,
Mon triste cœur bave à la poupe,
Mon cœur couvert de caporal !

Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques
Leurs quolibets l'ont dépravé !
Au gouvernail on voit des fresques
Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques.
Ô flots abracadabrantesques,
Prenez mon cœur, qu'il soit lavé !
Ithyphalliques et pioupiesques
Leurs quolibets l'ont dépravé !

Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques,
Comment agir, ô cœur volé ?
Ce seront des hoquets bachiques
Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques :
J'aurai des sursauts stomachiques,
Moi, si mon cœur est ravalé :
Quand ils auront tari leurs chiques
Comment agir, ô cœur volé ?

Text Authorship:

  • by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891) [author's text not yet checked 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 Lee Hoiby (1926 - 2011), "Le cœur volé", 1982, from Trois Poèmes de Rimbaud, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 24
Word count: 125

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