by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Là! Je me tue à vos genoux !
Language: French (Français)
Là! Je me tue à vos genoux ! Car ma détresse est infinie, Et la tigresse épouvantable d'Hyrcanie Est une agnelle au prix de vous. Oui, céans, cruelle Clymène, Ce glaive, qui dans maints combats Mit tant de Scipions et de Cyrus à bas, Va finir ma vie et ma peine! Ai-je même besoin de lui Pour descendre aux Champs-Élysées? Amour perça-t-il pas de flèches aiguisées Mon cœur, dès que votre œil m'eut lui?
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Authorship
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Dans la grotte", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 6, first published 1869 [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 Karl Heinrich David (1884 - 1951), "Air d'opéra", published 1942-4 [ voice and piano ], from Quatre chants, d'après des poésies de Paul Verlaine, no. 2, Zurich, Hug [sung text not yet checked]
- by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Dans la grotte", 1908, published 1913 [ voice and piano ], from Le Parc, no. 4, Berlin, Fürstner [sung text not yet checked]
- by Kaikhosru Sorabji, born Leon Dudley Sorabji (1892 - 1988), "Dans la grotte", KSS 37 no. 3 (1924), published 1924 [ voice and piano ], from Trois fêtes galantes de Verlaine, no. 3, London, Curwen [sung text checked 2 times]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , written 2002, first published 2002, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Charles Hopkins) , "In the Grotto", written c2005, copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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