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by Tristan Corbière (1845 - 1875)

Petit mort pour rire
Language: French (Français) 
Va vite, léger peigneur de comètes!
Les herbes au vent seront tes cheveux;
De ton oeil béant jailliront les feux
Follets, prisonniers dans les pauvres têtes....
Les fleurs de tombeau qu'on nomme Amourettes
Foisonneront plein ton rire terreux....
Et les myosotis, ces fleurs d'oubliettes....
Ne fais pas le lourd; cercueils de poètes
Pour les croque-morts sont de simples jeux,
Boîtes à violon qui sonnent le creux....
Ils te croiront mort ... Les bourgeois sont bêtes ... 
Va vite, léger peigneur de comètes!

Text Authorship:

  • by Tristan Corbière (1845 - 1875), "Petit mort pour rire", appears in Les amours jaunes, in Rondels pour après, first published 1873 [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), "Petit mort pour rire", 1936, published 1991 [ voice and piano ], from Trois poèmes de Tristan Corbière, no. 2, Amsterdam, Donemus [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2009-02-08
Line count: 12
Word count: 80

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