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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

L'Espionne
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG GER
Pâle espionne de l'Amour
Ma mémoire à peine fidèle
N'eut pour observer cette belle
Forteresse qu'une heure un jour

Tu te déguises
                À ta guise
Mémoire espionne du cœur
Tu ne retrouves plus l'exquise
Ruse et le coeur seul est vainqueur

Mais la vois-tu cette mémoire
Les yeux bandés prête à mourir
Elle affirme qu'on peut l'en croire
Mon coeur vaincra sans coup férir

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'espionne", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 5. Obus couleur de lune, first published 1918 [author's text not yet checked 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), "L'espionne", 1939, published 1991 [ voice and piano ], Éd. de l'AARC (Association des Amis de Robert Caby) [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "L'espionne", <<2011 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "L'Espionne", FP 140 no. 1 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 1, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "The spy", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Die Spionin", copyright © 2019, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-10-12
Line count: 13
Word count: 64

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