by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Rouge et blanc
Language: French (Français)
Une cruelle et rouge langue, Aux chairs salivantes de sang, Comme un éclair érubescent Sillonne son visage exsangue. Sa face pâle est une gangue D’où sort ce rubis repoussant : Une cruelle et rouge langue, Aux chairs salivantes de sang. Son corps vertigineux qui tangue Est comme un blanc vaisseau hissant A son grand mât éblouissant Son pavillon couleur de mangue : Une cruelle et rouge langue !
Confirmed with Albert Giraud, Héros et Pierrots, Librairie Fischbacher (Collection des poètes français de l’étranger), 1898, pages 125-126.
Text Authorship:
- by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Rouge et blanc", written 1884, appears in Pierrot lunaire, Paris, Éd. Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1884 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Rot und Weiss", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Otto Vrieslander.
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