Madame, look! | Madame, look!

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by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

Translation © by Salvador Pila

Mais Madame écoutez‑moi donc

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: CAT ENG GER

Mais Madame écoutez-moi donc
Vous perdez quelque chose 
-  C'est mon coeur pas grand-chose
Ramassez-le donc 
Je l'ai donné je l'ai repris 
Il fut là-bas dans les tranchées
Il est ici j'en ris j'en ris 
Des belles amours que la mort a fauchées

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Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2 [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 Émile Naoumoff (b. 1962), "C'est mon cœur" [ medium voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906 - 1975), "Les attentives II", op. 135 no. 6, from Symphony no. 14, no. 6, also set in Russian (Русский) [sung text not yet checked]

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Mikhail Pavlovich Kudinov (1922 - 1994) , copyright © ; composed by Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich.

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

CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, miri!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
ENG English (Salvador Pila) , "Madame, look!", copyright © 2011, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2020, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: John Versmoren

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 8
Word count: 42

Madame, look!

Language: English after the French (Français)

Madame, look!
You have lost something.
It's my heart -- not much of a thing!
So pick it up.
I have given it, and I have taken it back.
It was down there in the trenches.
Now it's here and I laugh at them, I laugh at them,
at the beautiful loves scythed down by death.

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Translation from French (Français) to English copyright © 2011 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:

a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, no title, appears in Les attentives, no. 2
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This text was added to the website: 2011-05-22
Line count: 8
Word count: 55