Toward the South | Zenith/ All these regrets

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

Translation © by Korin Kormick

Zénith

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER

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), "Vers le sud", 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]

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

ENG English (Korin Kormick) , "Toward the South", copyright © 2002, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Julia Henning) , "Richtung Süden", copyright © 2019, (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.
Line count: 10
Word count: 65

Toward the South

Language: English after the French (Français)

 Zenith
 All these regrets
 These gardens without limits
 Where the toad varies a tender azure cry
 The doe of the boundless silence passes quickly
 A nightingale wounded by love sings on
 The rosebush of your body from which I have picked the roses
 Our hearts hang together on the same pomegranate tree
 And the pomegranate flowers in our dawning glances
 While falling by turns have littered the path

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a text in French (Français) 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
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 10
Word count: 69