by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)
Sur l'herbe
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
L'abbé divague. - Et toi, marquis, Tu mets de travers ta perruque. - Ce vieux vin de Chypre est exquis Moins, [Camargo]1, que votre nuque. - Ma flamme . . . Do, mi, sol, la, si. - L'abbé, ta noirceur se dévoile. - Que je meure, Mesdames, si Je ne vous décroche une étoile ! - Je voudrais être petit chien ! Embrassons nos bergères, l'une Après l'autre. - Messieurs, eh bien ? Do, mi, sol. - Hé ! bonsoir, la Lune !
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1 Camargo was an eighteenth-century ballerina.
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1 Camargo was an eighteenth-century ballerina.
Authorship
- by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Sur l'herbe", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 3, 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 Raoul Laparra (1876 - 1943), "Sur l'herbe", published 1927 [voice and piano], from Pastels, suite de mélodies sur des Fétes galantes, no. 3, Paris, Gallet [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Lucien Legras , "Sur l'herbe", published [1954] [voice and piano], Paris, L. Legras [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Fernand Ochsé (1879 - 1944), "Sur l'herbe", 1908, published 1913 [voice and piano], from Le Parc, no. 2, Berlin, Fürstner [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Gustave Oudot , "Sur l'herbe", [1948]. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Willem Pijper (1894 - 1947), "Sur l'herbe", 1916, published 1947 [mezzo-soprano and piano or orchestra], from Fêtes galantes, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880 - 1932), "Sur l'herbe", 1913, published 1918 [voice and piano], Paris, Rœder [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
- by Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937), "Sur l'herbe", M. 53 (1907), published 1907 [voice and piano], from Douze chants avec accompagnement de piano, no. 12, Paris, Durand [ sung text checked 1 time]
- by Aimée Strohl, dit Rita Strohl (1865 - 1941), "Sur l'herbe", [1897]. [voice and piano] [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "On the grass", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 83