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Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire Arnold Schoenberg. I. Moonstruck The wine that one drinks with the eyes The moon spills nights into the waves. And a spring flood overflows The still horizon. Desires, visible and sweet Countless swim across 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 eyesThe moon spills nights into the waves.

  3. And a spring flood overflowsThe still horizon.

  4. Desires, visible and sweetCountless swim across the flood.

  5. The wine that one drinks with the eyesThe moon spills nights into the waves.

  6. The poet, who practices devotionEnrapts himself on the holy drink,

  7. He turns against the sky ecstaticHeadlong reeling sucks and slurps

  8. The wine, that one drinks with the eyes.

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

  10. Bloom in July evenings--O I’d pluck just one.

  11. To ease anxious sufferingI search on dark streams

  12. Moonlight’s pale blossoms,The white wonder-roses.

  13. All my longing would be stilledIf I might, fabled, stalk

  14. Slightly tipsy--strew petalsIn your brown hair (of)

  15. Moonlight’s pale blossoms.

  16. III. The DandyWith one phantastical light beamThe moon lights the crystal flaconsl

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

  18. In a resonant bronze basinThe fountain laughs light, metal clangs

  19. With one phantastical light beamThe moon lights the crystal flaconsl

  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--sublime style

  22. With one phantastical moonbeam.

  23. IV. A Faded LaundressA faded laundressWashes nighttime’s pale clothes

  24. Naked, silver white armsShe stretches down into the flood.

  25. Through the clearing creeping windsSlightly agitate the stream.

  26. A faded laundressWashes nighttime’s pale clothes.

  27. And the calm maid of the skyBy twigs tenderly flattered

  28. Spreads across the dark meadowsHer light-woven linen--

  29. A faded laundress.

  30. V. Valse de ChopinLike a pallid drop of bloodColors a sick man’s lips,

  31. So reposes in these tonesA charm seeking annihilation.

  32. Wild air’s accords disorderDespair’s glacial dream--

  33. Like a pallid drop of bloodColors a sick man’s lips.

  34. Hot and and jocund, sweet and tastyMelancholic dusty waltzes,

  35. Never come into my senses!Hasten me on my conception

  36. Like a pallid drop of blood.

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