by Émile Albert Kayenberg (1860 - 1929), as Albert Giraud

Lune malade
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
O Lune, nocturne phtisique,
Sur le noir oreiller des cieux,
Ton immense regard fièvreux
M'attire comme une musique!

Tu meurs d'un amour chimérique,
Et d'un désir silencieux,
O Lune, nocturne phtisique,
Sur le noir oreiller des cieux!

Mais 'dans sa volupté physique
L'amant qui passe insoucieux
Prend pour des rayons gracieux
Ton sang blanc et mélancolique,
O Lune, nocturne phtisique!

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  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Otto Erich Hartleben (1864 - 1905) , "Der kranke Mond", appears in Pierrot lunaire, Berlin, Verlag Deutscher Phantasten, first published 1893 ; composed by Ferdinand Pfohl, Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg, Otto Vrieslander.

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  • ENG English (Andrew Schneider) , "The consumptive moon", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


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