Songs
Colombine
Colombine
Léandre le sot,Pierrot qui d'un saut, De puceFranchit le buisson,Cassandre sous son Capuce, Arlequin aussi,Cet aigrefin si FantasqueAux costumes fous,Ses yeux luisants sous Son masque, - Do, mi, sol, mi, fa, -Tout ce monde va, Rit, chanteEt danse devantUne belle enfant Méchante Dont les yeux perversComme les yeux verts Des chattesGardent ses appasEt disent: "À bas Les pattes!" - Eux ils vont toujours! -Fatidique cours Des astres,Oh! dis-moi vers quelsMornes ou cruels Désastres L'implacable enfant,Preste et relevant Ses jupes,La rose au chapeau,Conduit son troupeau De dupes?
Colombine
Foolish Leander,Pierrot who with a flea-HopLeaps the brushwood,Pantaloon beneath His cloak,Harlequin too,That swindler so BizarreIn his crazy clothes,With eyes aglow behind His mask,- Do re mi fa sol, -See all of then go, Laugh, sing,And dance beforeA sweet and naughty ChildWhose pernicious eyes,Like the green eyes Of cats,Keep their charmsAnd say: ‘Keep your Hands off!’- On and on they go!Like the fateful course Of stars,Oh! tell me, towards whichDull or savage WreckageIs the implacable child,Nimbly lifting Her skirts,With a flower in her hat,Leading her herd Of fools?
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Composer
Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski, daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska.
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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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Colombine
Colombine
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Composer
Poldowski was the professional pseudonym of a Belgian-born British composer and pianist born Régine Wieniawski, daughter of the Polish violinist and composer Henryk Wieniawski. Some of her early works were published under the name Irène Wieniawska.
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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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