Women in love | They have high shoulders

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

Translation © by Peter Low

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

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 106

Women in love

Language: English after the French (Français)

 They have high shoulders
 and a mischievous appearance
 or else disconcerting expressions.
 Confidence is in their chests
 at the height where the dawn of their breasts rises
 to undress the night.
 
 They have eyes that could break pebbles,
 and unconscious smiles.
 For every dream,
 squalls of shouting and snow,
 and uprooted shadows.
 
 One has to believe them by their kisses
 and their words and their gazes,
 and kiss only their kisses.
 
 I show only your face,
 the great storms of your bosom,
 all that I know and all that I don't know,
 my love... your love... your love ... your love.

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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Eugène Émile Paul Grindel (1895 - 1952), as Paul Éluard, "Amoureuses", written 1929, appears in À toute épreuve , first published 1929
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 18
Word count: 101