by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891)
Si j'étais le Zéphyr ailé
Language: French (Français)
Si j'étais le Zéphyr ailé, J'irais mourir sur votre bouche. Ces voiles, j'en aurais la [clé]1 Si j'étais le Zéphyr ailé. Près des seins pour qui je [brûlai]2 Je me glisserais dans la couche. Si j'étais le Zéphyr ailé, J'irais mourir sur votre bouche.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Debussy: "clef"
2 Debussy: "brûlais"
Text Authorship:
- by Théodore Faullin de Banville (1823 - 1891), "Triolet à Philis", written 1842, appears in Les Cariatides, in En habit zinzolin, no. 2, Paris, Éd. Charpentier, first published 1879 [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 Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918), "Zéphyr", L. 19/(12) (1881), published 1932 [ voice and piano ], Mainz, Schott [sung text checked 1 time]
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This text was added to the website: 2011-04-28
Line count: 8
Word count: 44