Vers le sud | Zénith

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

Zénith

Language: French (Français)

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Zénith
Tous ces regrets
Ces jardins sans limites
Où le crapaud module un tendre cri d'azur
La biche du silence éperdu passe vite
Un rossignol meurtri par l'amour chante sur
Le rosier de ton corps dont j'ai cueilli les roses
Nos coeurs pendent ensemble au même grenadier
Et les fleurs de grenade en nos regards écloses
En tombant tour à tour ont jonché le sentier

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Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Vers le sud", appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 3. Case d'Armons, 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'adieu du cavalier", published 1996 [ voice and piano ], Paris : AARC [sung text not yet checked]
by Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "Tous les regrets" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Vers le sud", FP 140 no. 3 (1948), published 1948 [ baritone and piano ], from Calligrammes, no. 3, Éd. Heugel [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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