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by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903)

Le Cœur mort
Language: French (Français) 
Je rêvais que mon cœur flottait dans le château
Au-dessus d’une coupe étrange et poussiéreuse :
— Pour y saigner, bien sûr ! Car sa plaie est si creuse
Que le temps y retourne encore le couteau !

Eh quoi ? La chose alors était par trop affreuse :
Ni la meule du spleen, ni les coups de marteau
Du malheur, ni l’angoisse aux mâchoires d’étau
Ne pouvaient exprimer sa pourpre douloureuse.

Mon cœur vit ! m’écriai-je, il palpite ; il ressent !
Je perçois son tic-tac, et certes, c’est du sang,
Du sang qui va couler de sa blessure ouverte !

Mais non ! Il était mort, archi-mort, et si mûr,
Qu’une larme de pus nauséabonde et verte
En suinta lentement comme l’eau d’un vieux mur.

Confirmed with Maurice Rollinat, Les Névroses, Paris, Fasquelle, 1917, page 356.


Text Authorship:

  • by Maurice Rollinat (1846 - 1903), "Le Cœur mort", appears in Les névroses, in 5. Les Ténèbres [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), "Le Cœur mort" [ voice and piano ], from Rouges et Noires, vingt-six mélodies, paroles de Maurice Rollinat, no. 24, Paris, Éd. Heugel [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-03-27
Line count: 14
Word count: 117

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