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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Sur l'herbe
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
L'abbé divague. — Et toi, marquis
Tu mets de travers ta perruque.
— Ce vieux vin de Chypre est exquis
Moins, Camargo, 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 !

Confirmed with Paul Verlaine, Fêtes galantes, Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1869, pages 5-6.

Note for stanza 1, line 4, word 2: Camargo was an eighteenth-century ballerina.


Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Sur l'herbe", appears in Fêtes galantes, no. 3, Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, first published 1869 [author's text checked 2 times 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]
  • by Lucien Legras , "Sur l'herbe", published [1954] [ voice and piano ], Paris, L. Legras [sung text not yet checked]
  • 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]
  • by Gustave Oudot , "Sur l'herbe", [1948] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • 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 (1880 - 1932), "Sur l'herbe", 1913, published 1918 [ voice and piano ], Paris, Rœder [sung text not yet checked]
  • 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 (1865 - 1941), "Sur l'herbe", [1897] [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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


Research team for this page: Emily Ezust [Administrator] , Poom Andrew Pipatjarasgit [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 12
Word count: 77

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