Regardez cette troupe infecte
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Regardez cette troupe infecte
Aux mille pattes, aux cent yeux :
Rotifères, cirons, insectes
Et microbes plus merveilleux
Que les sept merveilles du monde
Et le palais de Rosemonde!
About the headline (FAQ)
First published in the revue La Phalange, no. 24, June 15, 1908 as number 10 of "La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain" (a collection of 18 poems), and later in Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (1911).
Authorship:
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Orphée II", op. 1b no. 13 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 13, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Orphée (3)", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 10 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Orphée", op. 17a no. 13 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 13 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Ted Perry
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Word count: 29
Behold this infestation
Language: English  after the French (Français)
Behold this infestation
with a thousand feet, one hundred eyes:
Zooplankton, mites, insects
And microbes more marvelous
Than the seven wonders of the world
Or the palace of Rosemonde!
About the headline (FAQ)
Translation of title "Orphée" = "Orpheus"
Translator's note: Apollonaire’s notes to his Bestiary state: “This palace was the proof of the King of England’s love for his mistress, as recounted in these lines from a poem whose author I do not know:
To shelter Rosemonde from the malice
She suffered from his queen,
The king built Rosemonde a palace
More beautiful than ever seen."
Authorship:
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This text was added to the website: 2023-08-23
Line count: 6
Word count: 29