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Aux Flancs du Vase (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Aux Flancs du Vase
Que le pain bien coupé remplisse les corbeilles, Et puis ferme la porte et chasse les Dehors le soleil brûle, et la muraille cuit. Rapprochons les volets faisons presque la nuit, Afin qu'ainsi la salle, aux ténèbres plongée, S'embaume toute aux fruits dont la table est chargée. Maintenant, va puiser l'eau fraîche dans la cour; Et veille que surtout la cruche, à ton retour, Garde longtemps, glacée et lentement fondue.
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Que le pain bien coupé remplisse les corbeilles, Et puis ferme la porte et chasse les Dehors le soleil brûle, et la muraille cuit. Rapprochons les volets faisons presque la nuit, Afin qu'ainsi la salle, aux ténèbres plongée, S'embaume toute aux fruits dont la table est chargée. Maintenant, va puiser l'eau fraîche dans la cour; Et veille que surtout la cruche, à ton retour, Garde longtemps, glacée et lentement fondue.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
173 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2014
About the author
Albert Samain
81 books4 followersAlbert Victor Samain (3 April 1858 – 18 August 1900) was a French poet and writer of the Symbolist school.
Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. Samain's father died when he was quite young; it was necessary for him to leave school and seek a trade. He moved to Paris in around 1880, where his poetry won him a following and he began mixing with avant-garde literary society, and began publicly reciting his poems at Le Chat Noir. His poems were strongly influenced by those of Baudelaire, and began to strike a somewhat morbid and elegiac tone. He also was influenced by Verlaine; his works disclose a taste for indecisive, vague imagery. Samain helped found the Mercure de France, and also worked on the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Samain published three volumes of verse: Le jardin de l'infante (1893), which made him famous; Aux flancs du vase (1898) and Le Chariot d'or (1901). His poetic drama Polyphème was set to music by Jean Cras. Samain died of tuberculosis.
Camille Saint-Saëns set poems of Samain to music: "Six Mélodies sur des poésies d'Albert Samain" op.31 (1902-1906; orchestrated 1921)
Born in Lille, his family were Flemish and had long lived in the town or its suburbs. At the time of the poet's birth, his father, Jean-Baptiste Samain, and his mother, Elisa-Henriette Mouquet, conducted a business in "wines and spirits" at 75 rue de Paris. Samain's father died when he was quite young; it was necessary for him to leave school and seek a trade. He moved to Paris in around 1880, where his poetry won him a following and he began mixing with avant-garde literary society, and began publicly reciting his poems at Le Chat Noir. His poems were strongly influenced by those of Baudelaire, and began to strike a somewhat morbid and elegiac tone. He also was influenced by Verlaine; his works disclose a taste for indecisive, vague imagery. Samain helped found the Mercure de France, and also worked on the Revue des Deux Mondes.
Samain published three volumes of verse: Le jardin de l'infante (1893), which made him famous; Aux flancs du vase (1898) and Le Chariot d'or (1901). His poetic drama Polyphème was set to music by Jean Cras. Samain died of tuberculosis.
Camille Saint-Saëns set poems of Samain to music: "Six Mélodies sur des poésies d'Albert Samain" op.31 (1902-1906; orchestrated 1921)
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