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by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960)

Grands yeux dans ce visage
Language: French (Français) 
Grands yeux dans ce visage
Qui vous a placés là?
De quel vaisseau sans mât
Êtes-vous l'équipage,
Depuis quel abordage
Attendez-vous ainsi ouverts toute la nuit?
Feux noirs d'un bastingage
Etonnés, mais soumis
A la loi des orages
Prisonnier des mirages,
Quand sonnera minuit,
Baissez un peu les cils
Pour reprendre courage.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960), no title, written 1928, appears in Le Forçat innocent, in 2. Saisir, no. 3, Paris, Éd Gallimard, first published 1930 [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 Maurice Jaubert (1900 - 1940), "Grands yeux dans ce visage", op. 88 no. 3 (1939-1940), published 1999 [ soprano, strings, harp, piano ], from Saisir, suite pour soprano, orchestre à cordes, harpe et piano, no. 3, Éd. Gérard Billaudot [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: 13
Word count: 52

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