Spleen
Language:
French
Les roses étaient toutes rouges,
Et les lierres étaient tout noirs.
Chère, pour peu que tu te bouges,
Renaissent tous mes désespoirs.
Le ciel était [trop bleu, trop tendre,]1
La mer trop [verte et l'air trop doux;]2
Je crains toujours, ce qu'est d'attendre,
Quelque fuite atroce de vous!
Du houx à la feuille vernie,
Et du luisant buis je suis las,
Et de la campagne infinie,
Et de tout, fors de vous. Hélas!
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1 Phaneuf (Dela): "si bleu, si tendre"
2 Phaneuf (Dela): "verte, l'air si doux!"
Authorship
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text),
listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)
 by Catherine Alphonse
, "Spleen"
by Charles Bordes (1863-1909)
, "Spleen"
by Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918)
, "Spleen", from Ariettes Oubliées, no. 6.
by Bernard van Dieren (1887-1936)
, "Spleen", published 1927.
by Albert Phaneuf (1919-1978)
, "Spleen", under the pseudonym Maurice Dela
by Irena Regina Poldowski, née Wieniawski (1880-1932)
, "Spleen", published 1912.
by L. Schopfer
, "Spleen", published 1912.
by Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
, "Spleen", op. 38 no. 3 (1916), from Spleens et Détresses, no. 3.
Set in
English,
a translation of
Ernest Dowson (1867-1900)
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Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):
Date added to the website: 2003-10-20.
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