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Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg. I. Moonstruck The wine that one drinks with the eyes Pours nightly from the moon in waves. And a spring flood overflows The silent horizon. Desires, thrilling and sweet Swim numberless in the flood.

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Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg

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  1. Pierrot LunaireArnold Schoenberg

  2. I. MoonstruckThe wine that one drinks with the eyesPours nightly from the moon in waves.

  3. And a spring flood overflowsThe silent horizon.

  4. Desires, thrilling and sweetSwim numberless in the flood.

  5. The wine that one drinks with the eyesSpills nightly from the moon in waves.

  6. The poet, urged on by his devotionsIs drunk on the holy beverage,

  7. Ecstatic, he turns toward heavenHeadlong staggers, sucks and slurps

  8. The wine that one drinks with the eyes.

  9. II. ColombineMoonlight’s pale blossoms,White wonder-roses

  10. Bloom in July evenings--Oh, if I could pluck just one!

  11. To ease my anxious sufferingI seek along dark streams

  12. Moonlight’s pale blossoms,White wonder-roses.

  13. All my longing would be stilledIf I could, like in a secret fairy tale,

  14. So blissfully softly, scatterOn your brown hair

  15. Moonlight’s pale blossoms.

  16. III. The DandyWith a fantastic light beamThe moon lights the crystal bottles

  17. On the black, high holy washstandOf the silent dandy from Bergamo.

  18. In a resonant bronze basinThe water laughs bright, metallic

  19. With a fantastic light beamThe moon lights the crystal bottles

  20. Pierrot of the waxen countenance Stands musing and thinks: how shall he make-up today?

  21. Shoves aside the rouge and the Orient greenAnd paints his face in the noble style

  22. With a fantastic moonbeam.

  23. IV. A Pale Washer Woman

  24. A pale washer womanWashes nighttime’s faded clothes

  25. Naked, silver white armsStretch down into the flood.

  26. Winds creep through the clearingGently ruffling the stream.

  27. A pale washer womanWashes nighttime’s faded clothes.

  28. And the gentle maid of heavenFlattered tenderly by twigs

  29. Spreads across the dark meadowsHer linen woven of light--

  30. A pale washer woman.

  31. V. Chopin’s Waltz

  32. Like a pallid drop of bloodDyes a sick man’s lips,

  33. So there rests in these notesA charm that craves annihilation.

  34. Chords of wild pleasure disturbDespair’s icy dream--

  35. Like a pallid drop of bloodDyes a sick man’s lips.

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