Le Lion | Ô lion, malheureuse image

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

Le Lion

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Ô lion, malheureuse image 
Des rois chus lamentablement, 
Tu ne nais maintenant qu'en cage 
À Hambourg, chez les Allemands.

First published in the revue La Phalange, no. 24, June 15, 1908 as number 6 of "La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain" (a collection of 18 poems), and later in Le Bestiaire ou Cortège d'Orphée (1911).

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Lion", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 7, 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 Lion", op. 1b no. 7 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 7, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "Le Lion", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Lion", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Lion", op. 17a no. 7 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 7 [sung text checked 1 time]

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 4
Word count: 19