The Froggery | By the shore of the island one sees

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

Translation © by Derek Welton

La Grenouillère

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Au bord de l'île on voit
Les canots vides qui s'entre-cognent,
Et maintenant
Ni le dimanche, ni les jours de la semaine,
Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent
Bras nus sur leurs canots avec des femmes à grosses poitrines
Et bêtes comme chou.
Petits bateaux vous me faites bien de la peine
Au bord de l'île.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Grenouillère", written 1912, 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), "La Grenouillère", 1947 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "La Grenouillère", op. 5, FP 96 (1938), published 1939 [ medium voice and piano ], Éd. R. Deiss [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English (Derek Welton) , "The Froggery", copyright © 2007, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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Line count: 9
Word count: 58

The Froggery

Language: English after the French (Français)

By the shore of the island one sees
The empty boats which bump against each other,
And now
Neither on Sundays, nor on weekdays,
Neither painters nor Maupassant go walking
With bare arms on their boats with women of full bosom
And stupid like cabbage.
Little boats, you make me very sorrowful
By the shore of the island.

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Grenouillère", written 1912, appears in Il y a, Paris, Éd. Messein, first published 1925
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This text was added to the website: 2007-07-25
Line count: 9
Word count: 58