VOICI LA MAISON OÙ NAISSENT LES ÉTOILES ET LES DIVINITÉS

CET ARBRISSEAU QUI SE PRÉPARE À FRUCTIFIER TE RESSEMBLE

UN CIGARE ALLUMÉ QUI FUME

VOUS AMANTS COUCHÉS ENSEMBLE
VOUS SÉPAREZ MES MEMBRES

About the headline (FAQ)

Note: the poem appeared in print in the form of four shapes: Maison (house), Arbre (tree), Personnage (figure), Cigare (cigar), as follows:

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LES                    É                                  À FRUCTIFIER
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TOI              LES                                             RES
                                                                           SEM
ET LES DIVINITÉS                                  BLE

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Text Authorship:

• by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, title 1: "Paysage", title 2: "Paysage animé", written 1914, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, no. 3, first published 1918 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Paysage", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:

• by Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), "Paysage", 1973?, published 1973 [ baritone, unaccompanied ], London, Novello
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2026-04-21
Line count: 5
Word count: 32