Lovely and True to Life | A face at the end of the day

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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Belle et ressemblante

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Un visage à la fin du jour
Un berceau dans les feuilles mortes du jour
Un bouquet de pluie nue
Tout soleil caché
Toute source des sources au fond de l'eau
Tout miroir des miroirs brisés
Un visage dans les balances du silence
Un caillou parmi d'autres cailloux
Pour les frondes des dernières lueurs du jour
Un visage semblable à tous les visages oubliés

Confirmed with J. Jaffré, Le vers et le poème, N.p.: FeniXX réédition numérique, 1992, Page 137.

Text Authorship:

by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Belle et ressemblante", appears in La vie immédiate [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Belle et ressemblante", FP. 81 no. 5 [ chorus ], from Sept chansons, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website: 2005-01-12
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Word count: 64

Lovely and True to Life

Language: English after the French (Français)

A face at the end of the day
A cradle in the dead leaves of the day 
A scent of naked rain 
Every hidden sun
Every spring of springs at the bottom of the water
Every mirror of broken mirrors
A face in the scales of silence 
A pebble among other pebbles 
For the slings of the last glimmers of the day 
A face like all the forgotten faces

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a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Belle et ressemblante", appears in La vie immédiate
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This text was added to the website: 2025-12-16
Line count: 10
Word count: 69