Chanson (Apollinaire, set by F. Poulenc) (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, mélodies, canzoni, and other classical vocal music)


Les myrtilles sont pour la dame
Qui n'est pas là;
La marjolaine est pour mon âme
Tra-la-la!

Le chèvre-feuille est pour la belle
Irrésolue.
Quand cueillerons-nous les airelles
Lanturlu.

Mais laissons pousser sur la tombe,
O folle! O fou!
Le romarin en touffes sombres
Laïtou.

Authorship

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) [pseudonym]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne

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