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


 Au bord de l'île on voit
 Les canots vides qui s'entre-cognent,
 Et maintenant
 Ni le dimanche, ni les jours de la semaine,
 Ni les peintres ni Maupassant ne se promènent
 Bras nus sur leurs canots avec des femmes à grosses poitrines
 Et bêtes comme chou.
 Petits bateaux vous me faites bien de la peine
 Au bord de l'île.

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)

Available translations (or transliterations, if applicable):

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English

Added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.

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