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by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard

Amoureuses
Language: French (Français) 
Our translations:  ENG
Elles ont les épaules hautes
Et l'air malin
Ou bien des mines qui déroutent
La confiance est dans la poitrine
À la hauteur où l'aube de leurs seins se lève
Pour dévêtir la nuit

Des yeux à casser des cailloux
Des sourires sans y penser
Pour chaque rêve
Des rafales de cris de neige
Et des ombres déracinées.

Il faut les croire sur baiser
Et sur parole et sur regard
Et ne baiser que leurs baisers

Je ne montre que ton visage
Les grands orages de ta gorge
Tout ce que je connais et tout ce que j'ignore
Mon amour ton amour ton amour ton amour.

First appeared in the revue La Révolution surréaliste, December 15, 1929, n°12, and then in À toute épreuve, Éd. Surréalistes, 1930.


Text Authorship:

  • by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Amoureuses", written 1929, appears in À toute épreuve , first published 1929 [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 Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Amoureuses", FP 77 no. 5 (1935), published 1935 [ medium voice and piano ], from Cinq Poèmes de Paul Éluard, no. 5, Éd. Durand [sung text checked 1 time]

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

  • ENG English (Peter Low) , "Women in love", copyright © 2002, (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: 18
Word count: 106

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