Le Lièvre | Ne sois pas lascif et peureux

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

Le Lièvre

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ne sois pas lascif et peureux 
Comme le lièvre et l'amoureux. 
Mais, que toujours ton cerveau soit 
La hase pleine qui conçoit.

First appeared in the revue La Phalange, June 15, 1908, in "La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain" no. 7 of 18, and later in the 1911 publication of "Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée", Paris, Deplanche.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Lièvre", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 8, first published 1908 [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 Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Le Lièvre", op. 1b no. 8 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 8, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Lièvre", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Lièvre", op. 17a no. 8 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 8 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Rachel Laurin (b. 1961), "Le Lièvre", op. 22 no. 1 (1992), copyright © 1992 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]

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Researcher for this page: Ted Perry

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