L'étoile a pleuré rose | L'étoile a pleuré rose au cœur de tes oreilles

L'étoile a pleuré rose au cœur de tes...

Language: French (Français)

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L'étoile a pleuré rose au cœur de tes oreilles,
L'infini roulé blanc de ta nuque à tes reins ;
La mer a perlé rousse à tes mammes vermeilles
Et l'Homme saigné noir à ton flanc souverain.

Available sung texts: ← What is this?

• L. Ferré • H. Krása

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Confirmed with Paterne Berrichon, Jean-Arthur Rimbaud: le poète (1854-1873), Paris: Mercure de France, 1912, page 166.

Text Authorship:

by Arthur Rimbaud (1854 - 1891), no title [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 Rudolf Escher (1912 - 1980), "L'étoile a pleuré rose", 1970, from Univers de Rimbaud, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
by Ferenc Farkas (1905 - 2000), "Quatrain", 1996 [ high voice and cello ], from Quatre quatrains avec 4 cordes, no. 2, unpublished [sung text not yet checked]
by Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993), "L'étoile a pleuré rose" [ 2 voices, harp, piano ] [sung text checked 1 time]
by Hans Krása (1899 - 1944), "Quatrain", 1943 [ baritone, clarinet, viola, and violoncello ], from 3 Lieder, no. 1, also set in Czech (Čeština) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Christophe Sirodeau , "L’étoile", op. 7 (2001) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

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Also set in Czech (Čeština), a translation by Vítězslav Nezval (1900 - 1958) ; composed by Hans Krása.
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This text was added to the website: 2009-02-08
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Word count: 35