by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891)
Le haut étang fume continuellement
Language: French (Français)
Le haut étang fume continuellement. Quelle sorcière va se dresser sur le couchant blanc ? Quelles violettes frondaisons vont descendre ?
About the headline (FAQ)
Confirmed with Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations, Texte établi par Félix Fénéon, Publications de la Vogue, 1886 p.58
Text Authorship:
- by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), no title, appears in Les Illuminations, in Phrases, no. 5 [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 Héloïse Werner (b. 1991), "Mixed phrases" [ voice and cello ] [sung text not yet checked]
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