Heart crown and mirror | My heart like an inverted flame

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

Translation © by Grant Hicks

Cœur couronne et miroir

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG

Mon cœur pareil à une flamme renversée.

Note: this poem appears in the shape of a heart in its printed form.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Cœur couronne et miroir", written 1914, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918 [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 Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Cœur couronne et miroir", 1947 [ high voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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This text was added to the website: 2021-10-10
Line count: 1
Word count: 7

Heart crown and mirror

Language: English after the French (Français)

My heart like an inverted flame.

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a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Cœur couronne et miroir", written 1914, appears in Calligrammes - Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre, in 1. Ondes, Paris, Éd. Gallimard, first published 1918
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This text was added to the website: 2025-09-14
Line count: 1
Word count: 6