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by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960)

Les rivières riaient
Language: French (Français) 
Les rivières riaient, de village en village,
Déplaçant les reflets, mêlant les paysages
Au plus pur de leurs eaux,
Puis les emportaient tous, les jetaient pêle-mêle
Au milieu de la mer
Et les toits des maisons, les bouleaux naufragés
Et quelques baldaquins
Qui n'étaient que mirages
Rassasiaient fort mal le ventre des requins. 

Text Authorship:

  • by Jules Supervielle (1884 - 1960), written 1959, appears in Le corps tragique, in Les poissons rouges, no. 5, Paris, Éd. du Mercure de France, first published 1959 [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 Ernst Alexander 'Sas' Bunge (1924 - 1980), "Les rivières riaient", 1970, published 1974 [ medium voice and piano ], from 3 poèmes de Jules Supervielle, no. 1, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2023-01-10
Line count: 9
Word count: 53

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