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

Le Pont
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Deux dames le long le long du fleuve
Elles se parlent par-dessus l'eau
Et sur le pont de leurs paroles
La foule passe et repasse en dansant

Un dieu
c'est pour toi seule que le sang coule
Tu reviendras
Hi! oh! Là-bas
Là-bas

Tous les enfants savent pourquoi

Passe mais passe donc

Ne te retourne pas

Hi! oh! là-bas là-bas
Les jeunes filles qui passent sur le pont léger
Portent dans leurs mains
Le bouquet de demain
Et leurs regards s'écoulent
Dans ce fleuve à tous étranger
Qui vient de loin qui va si loin
Et passe sous le pont léger de vos paroles
Ô Bavardes le long du fleuve
Ô Bavardes ô folles le long du fleuve.

Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le pont", written 1917, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925 [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), "Le pont", 1945 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Le Pont", FP 131 no. 1 (1946), published 1947 [ high voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The bridge", copyright © 2016, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 22
Word count: 118

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