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by Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887)

Jeux
Language: French (Français) 
Ah ! la Lune, la Lune m'obsède...
Croyez-vous qu'il y ait un remède ?

Morte ? Se peut-il pas qu'elle dorme
Grise de cosmiques chloroformes ?

Rosace en tombale efflorescence
De la Basilique du Silence,

Tu persistes dans ton attitude,
Quand je suffoque de solitude!

Oui, oui, tu as la gorge bien faite ;
Mais, si jamais je ne m'y allaite ?...

Encore un soir, et mes berquinades
S'en iront rire à la débandade,

Traitant mon platonisme si digne
D'extase de pêcheur à la ligne !

Salve Régina des Lis ! reine,
Je te veux percer de mes phalènes !

Je veux baiser ta patène triste,
Plat veuf du chef de Saint Jean Baptiste !

Je veux trouver un lied ! qui te touche
A te faire émigrer vers ma bouche !

- Mais, même plus de rimes à Lune...
Ah ! quelle regrettable lacune !

Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Laforgue (1860 - 1887), "Jeux", written 1884, appears in L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, Paris, Éd. Léon Vanier, first published 1886 [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 Paolo Ugoletti (b. 1956), "Jeux", 1983, published 1985, first performed 1985 [ soprano and piano ], from Due Lieder per soprano e pianoforte su testi di Jules Laforgue, no. 1, Milan (Italy), Suvini Zerboni [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2021-11-01
Line count: 22
Word count: 131

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