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by André Fontainas (1865 - 1948)

Sur le basalte au portique des antres...
Language: French (Français) 
Sur le basalte au portique des antres calmes
Lourd de la mousse des fucus d'or et des algues
Parmi l'occulte et lent frémissent des vagues
S'ouvrent en floraisons hautaines dans les algues
Les coupes d'orgueil des glaïeuls grêles et calmes.

Le mystère où vient mourir le rythme des vagues
Exhale en lueurs de longues caresses calmes
Et le rouge corail où se tordent les algues
Etend à la mer ses bras sanglants de fleurs calmes
Qui mirent leurs reflets sur le repos des vagues.

Et te voici parmi les jardins fleuris d'algues
En la nocturne et lointaine chanson des vagues
Reine dont les regards pensifs en clartés calmes
Sont de glauques glaïeuls érigeant sur les vagues
Leurs vasques aux pleurs doux du corail et des algues.

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Text Authorship:

  • by André Fontainas (1865 - 1948), no title, written 1892?, appears in Les vergers illusoires, in 2. Vers les havres aux fruits d'or, no. 8, Paris, Éd. Librairie de l'Art Indépendant, first published 1892 [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 Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955), "Sur le basalte", H. 7 no. 1 (1914), published 1921 [ medium voice and piano ], from Quatre poèmes, no. 1, J & W Chester [sung text checked 1 time]

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 15
Word count: 126

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