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by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896)

Intérieur
Language: French (Français) 
À grands plis sombres une ample tapisserie
De haute lice, avec emphase descendrait
Le long des quatre murs immenses d'un retrait
Mystérieux où l'ombre au luxe se marie.

Les meubles vieux, d'étoffe éclatante flétrie,
Le lit entr'aperçu vague comme un regret,
Tout aurait l'attitude et l'âge du secret,
Et l'esprit se perdrait en quelque allégorie.

Ni livres, ni tableaux, ni fleurs, ni clavecins;
Seule, à travers les fonds obscurs, sur des coussins,
Une apparition bleue et blanche de femme

Tristement sourirait - inquiétant témoin -
Au lent écho d'un chant lointain d'épithalame,
Dans une obsession de musc et de benjoin. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896), "Intérieur", appears in Jadis et naguère, in Jadis, in Sonnets et autres vers, no. 4, 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):

  • by Willem Frederik Bon (1940 - 1983), "Intérieur", op. 32 no. 1, published 1970 [ mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, violin, and piano ], from Jadis et naguère, no. 1, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2008-07-05
Line count: 14
Word count: 98

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