Songs
Green
(1902)
Green
Voici des fruits, des fleurs, des feuilles et des branches.Et puis voici mon cœur qui ne bat que pour vous:Ne le dechirez pas avec vos deux mains blanchesEt qu’à vos yeux si beaux l’humble présent soit doux.J’arrive, tout couvert encore de roséeQue le vent du matin vient glacer à mon front.Souffrez que ma fatigue, a vos pieds reposée,Rêve des chers instants qui la délasseront.Sur votre jeune sein, laissez rouler ma têteToute sonore encore de vos derniers baisers,Laissez-la s’apaiser de la bonne tempête,Et que je dorme un peu puisque vous reposez.
Green
Here are flowers, branches, fruit and fronds,And here too my heart that beats just for you.Do not tear it with your two white handsAnd may the humble gift please your lovely eyes.I come all covered still with the dewFrozen to my brow by the morning breeze.Let my fatigue, finding rest at your feet,Dream those dear moments that will give it peace.On your young breast let me roll my headStill ringing from your recent kisses;After its sweet tumult grant it peace,And let me sleep a while, since you rest.
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Composer
André Caplet was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.
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Poet
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
Born in Metz, Verlaine was educated at the Lycée Impérial Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Leconte de Lisle. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: Anatole France, Emmanuel Chabrier, inventor-poet and humorist Charles Cros, the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Théodore de Banville, François Coppée, Jose-Maria de Heredia, Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendes and others. Verlaine's first published collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality.
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Green
Green
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Composer
André Caplet was a French composer and conductor now known primarily through his orchestrations of works by Claude Debussy.
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Poet
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.
Born in Metz, Verlaine was educated at the Lycée Impérial Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Leconte de Lisle. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: Anatole France, Emmanuel Chabrier, inventor-poet and humorist Charles Cros, the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Théodore de Banville, François Coppée, Jose-Maria de Heredia, Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendes and others. Verlaine's first published collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality.
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