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by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Billet à Whistler
Language: French (Français) 
Pas les rafales à propos
De rien comme occuper la rue
Sujette au noir vol de chapeaux ;
Mais une danseuse apparue

Tourbillon de mousseline ou
Fureur éparses en écumes
Que soulève par son genou
Celle même dont nos vécûmes

Pour tout, hormis lui, rebattu
Spirituelle, ivre, immobile
Foudroyer avec le tutu,
Sans se faire autrement de bile

Sinon rieur que puisse l’air
De sa jupe éventer Whistler.

Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898) [author's text not yet checked 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 Nicola LeFanu (b. 1947), "Billet à Whistler", 2002 [ soprano and piano ], from Two French Songs, no. 1 [sung text checked 1 time]

Researcher for this page: Joost van der Linden [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2026-03-07
Line count: 14
Word count: 67

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