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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
Translation © by Salvador Pila

Par les portes d'Orkenise
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  CAT ENG
Par les portes d'Orkenise
Veut entrer un charretier.
Par les portes d'Orkenise
Veut sortir un va-nu-pieds.

Et les gardes de la ville
Courant sus au va-nu-pieds :
« Qu'emportes-tu de la ville ?»
« J'y laisse mon coeur entier. »

Et les gardes de la ville
Courant sus au charretier:
« Qu'apportes-tu dans la ville ?»
« Mon cœur pour me marier.»

Que de cœurs dans Orkenise !
Les gardes riaient, riaient,
Va-nu-pieds, la route est grise,
L'amour grise, ô charretier.

Les beaux gardes de la ville
Tricotaient superbement ;
Puis les portes de la ville
Se fermèrent lentement.

R. Caby sets stanzas 1-3

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Text Authorship:

  • by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1908, appears in L'enchanteur pourrissant, in Onirocritique [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), "Par les portes d'Orkenise", 1945, published 1957, stanzas 1-3 [ voice and piano ], Éd. Enoch [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Chanson d'Orkenise", FP 107 no. 1 (1940), published 1941 [ medium voice and piano ], from Banalités, no. 1, Éd. Max Eschig [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Song of Orkenise", copyright © 2001, (re)printed on this website with kind permission


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 20
Word count: 96

Per les portes d'Orkenise
Language: Catalan (Català)  after the French (Français) 
Per les portes d'Orkenise
un carreter vol entrar.
Per les portes d'Orkenise
un indigent vol marxar.

I els guàrdies de la ciutat
corrent vers l’indigent:
«--Què te’n portes de la ciutat?»
«--Deixo enrere tot el meu cor.»

I els guàrdies de la ciutat
corrent vers el carreter:
"--Què portes a la ciutat?"
"--El meu cor, per casar-me."

Quants cors a Orkenise!
Els guàrdies reien i reien,
indigent, la ruta és fatigosa,
l'amor és fatigós, oh carreter.

Els bells guàrdies de la ciutat 
trescaven superbament;
Llavors les portes de la ciutat
es tancaren lentament.

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Translations of titles:
"Chanson d'Orkenise" = "Cançó d'Orkenise"
"Par les portes d'Orkenise" = "Per les portes d'Orkenise"


Text Authorship:

  • Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

  • a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, written 1908, appears in L'enchanteur pourrissant, in Onirocritique
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This text was added to the website: 2026-04-22
Line count: 20
Word count: 93

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