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by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud
Translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905)

Les croix
Language: French (Français) 
Les beaux vers sont de larges croix
Où saignent les rouges poètes,
Aveuglés par les gypaètes
Volant en rond dans les cieux froids.

Dans la nuit les lointains beffrois
Célèbrent de sinistres fêtes:
Les beaux vers sont de larges croix
Où saignent les rouges poètes,

Ils ont trépassé, cheveux droits,
Loin de la foule aux clameurs bêtes,
Les soleils couchants sur leurs têtes
Comme des couronnes de rois!
Les beaux vers sont de larges croix !

Text Authorship:

  • by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Les croix", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884 [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):

    [ None yet in the database ]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Die Kreuze", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1892 ; composed by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.
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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 75

Die Kreuze
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the French (Français) 
Our translations:  CHI ENG FRE ITA NYN
Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse,
Dran die Dichter stumm verbluten,
Blindgeschlagen von der Geier
Flatterndem Gespensterschwarme!

In den Leibern schwelgten Schwerter,
Prunkend in des Blutes Scharlach!
Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse,
Dran die Dichter stumm verbluten.

Tot das Haupt - erstarrt die Locken -
Fern, verweht der Lärm des Pöbels.
Langsam sinkt die Sonne nieder,
Eine rote Königskrone. -
Heilge Kreuze sind die Verse!

Text Authorship:

  • by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905), "Die Kreuze", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1892 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud, "Les croix", appears in Pierrot lunaire, first published 1884
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg (1874 - 1951), "Die Kreuze", op. 21 no. 14 (1912), from Pierrot lunaire, no. 14 [sung text checked 1 time]
  • by Otto Vrieslander (1880 - 1950), "Die Kreuze", 1905?, published 1905 [ medium voice and piano ], from Pierrot lunaire, Dichtungen von A. Giraud ins deutstche übertragen von O. E. Hartleben, no. 33, München, Heinrich Lewy [sung text not yet checked]

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

  • CHI Chinese (中文) (Yen-Chiang Che) , "十字架", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ENG English (Mimmi Fulmer) (Ric Merritt) , "Crosses", copyright ©, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , "Les croix", copyright © 2012, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • ITA Italian (Italiano) (Ferdinando Albeggiani) , "Le croci", copyright © 2009, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
  • NYN Norwegian (Nynorsk) (Are Frode Søholt) , "Korsa", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2003-11-16
Line count: 13
Word count: 61

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